The appointment of the senior independent director in Kazakhmys PLC.

/INTERFAX-KAZAKHSTAN, Astana, April 3, 06/ - James Rutland is appointed the senior independent director of Kazakhmys PLC, the company informed on Monday. Before this appointment J. Rutland was the non-executive director of Kazakhmys PLC from the moment of including the company in the listing of London exchangeс момента включения компании в листинг Лондонской биржи. Currently he also acts as the chairman of Kazakhmys PLC auditing commission; moreover he is the consultant and the financial director of Osprey Oil & Gas Limited. Before the present appointment J. Rutland filled the position in Investors in Industry PLC. in different years, worked in the corporative financial group James Capel's, in Hongkong Bank, Energy Africa Limited. "Kazakhmys PLC confirms its purpose to appoint one more independent non- executive director, about which it will inform in future, as it is noted in the report. In the end of the last year "Kazakhmys" allocated %26.2 of its shares in London stock exchange and borrowed 661 m. pounds. "Kazakhmys" corporation specializes in the production of refined copper and copper raw material and combines Zhezkazgan copper smeltery (former Zhezkazgan JSC), Balkhash ore mining and processing enterprise, Zhezkent OMPE and East Kazakhstan copper-chemical industrial complex. [2006-04-03]