12.04.2011 - Kazakhstan appoints Arabic-speaking foreign minister
Kazakhstan appointed Kairat Kelimbetov as economy minister on Monday. Kelimbetov, appointed by presidential decree, was previously head of Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund, Samruk-Kazyna. He replaces Zhanar Aitzhanova as economy minister. Veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev, embarking on his third decade in office, also appointed the head of Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund as minister for the $147 billion economy and replaced the agriculture minister with an experienced farm-sector bureaucrat..............................................Full Article: Source
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