/REUTERS, Almaty, April 5, 05/ - Oil-producer Kazakhstan's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 9.3 percent in the first quarter of 2005 compared with 9.1 percent in the same period of 2004, government data showed on Tuesday.

The Kazakh government has forecast GDP growth this year to slow down to 7.9 percent from last year's 9.4 percent. ((Reuters Almaty Newsroom, +7 3272 50 85 00, reuters@newsroom.almaty.kz))

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