Since March 16, 2006 twenty securities are excluded from KASE's list of instruments, allowed for using as subjects of automatic repo transactions

/KASE, March 16, 06/ - By the decision of Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) Board since March 16, 2006 securities are excluded from KASE's list of instruments, allowed for using as subjects of automatic repo transactions: - KZ1C37670011 issue common bonds (ASFI) of Astana-Finance JSC (Astana) with 180-day repo transactions term; - KZPC1Y05D501 issue bonds (ASFIb5) of Astana-Finance JSC with 60, 90, 180, 270 and 360-day repo transactions term; - KZPC2Y07B505 issue bonds (ASFIb6) of Astana-Finance JSC (Almaty) with 60, 90, 180, 270 and 360- day repo transactions term; - KZPC4Y05B331 issue bonds (BTAIb6) of BTA Ipoteka JSC (Almaty) with 14 and 30- day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY08A535 issue bonds (BTASb2) of Bank TuranAlem JSC (Karaganda) with 1, 7 and 14- day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY10A887 issue bonds (BTASb3) of Bank TuranAlem JSC with 60, 90, 180, 270, and 360 - day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY10В158 issue bonds (BTASb4) of Bank TuranAlem JSC (Almaty) with 60, 90, 180, 270, and 360 - day repo transactions term; - KZ1C50510011 common shares (HRLT) of CHARALTYN JSC (Semipalatinsk) with 1 and 28 - day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY06A760 issue bonds (HSBKb3) of Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty) with 7 - day repo transactions term; - KZPC1Y03B198 issue bonds (HSBKb5) of Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC with 1 and 3 - day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY10A853 issue bonds (KZIKb2) of Kazakhstan Mortgage Company JSC (Almaty) with 1 and 3 - day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY10A986 issue bonds (KZIKb3) of Kazakhstan Mortgage Company JSC with 1 and 3 - day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY10В075 issue bonds (KZIKb4) of Kazakhstan Mortgage Company JSC with 3-day repo transactions term; - KZ1C12280417 common shares (KZTK) of Kazakhtelecom JSC (Astana) with 30-day repo transactions term; - KZ1P33110118 preferred shares (NRBNp6) of Nurbank JSC (Almaty) with 1, 7 and 14 - day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY05B091 issue bonds (PRKRb1) of Food Contract Corporation JSC (Astana) with 3-day repo transactions term; - KZ1C00260014 common shares (TEBN) of Temirbank JSC (Almaty) with 20-day repo transactions term; - KZ2CKY03B120 issue bonds (TSBNb1) of Tsesnabank JSC (Astana) with 7-day repo transactions term; - KZPC1Y05B618 issue bonds (VTBNb3) of Valut-Tranzit-Bank JSC (Karaganda) with 3-day repo transactions term; - KZPC2Y07B612 issue bonds (VTBNb4) of Valut-Tranzit-Bank JSC with 7, 14 and 28 - day repo transactions term. The decision has been taken in compliance with paragraph 3 of item 3 of KASE's internal document "Specification of automatic repo market" (http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/sp_repo.pdf), because repo transactions in the mentioned instruments were not made on KASE for six months. [2006-03-16]