/REVIEW/ ON May 24 REPEATED AUCTION ON OFFERING OF KZK2KY040329 ISSUE MEOKAM-48 WILL BE HELD ON KASE

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/KASE, May 23, 06/ - Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) informs that on May 24 of 2006 repeated auction on offering of government mid-term treasury instruments of the Ministry of finance of Kazakhstan (MEOKAM) will be held on KASE on the terms given below (Almaty time). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Type of security: МЕОКАМ-48 National identification number: KZK2KY040329 Ordinal number of the issue: 32 Trade code of KASE: MOM048_0032 Face value, KZT: 1,000.00 Volume of bonds in circulation 1,954,899 Circulation start date: Feb 10, 2004 Last circulation day: Feb 8, 2008 Maturity date: Feb 9, 2008 Circulation term: 4 years (1,460 days) Coupon rate 6.00% APR Periodicity of coupon payment: 2 times a year Schedule of coming payments: 5 Aug 10, 2006 6 Feb 9, 2007 7 Aug 10, 2007 8 Feb 9, 2008 Time basis: actual/365 ------------------------------------- ------------------------- Announced offering volume, units: 10,000,000* Subject of trade: bonds net price Stake of market bids satisfaction, %: 30 Applications submitting method: closed Applications acceptance time: 09:00 - 11:00 Applications confirmation period: 09:00 - 11:30 (Т+0) Cutting off: until 15:00 (Т+0) Payment time: until 15:00 (Т+0) Bids satisfying method: limited (competitive) at stated price market (uncompetitive) at weighted average price ---------------------------------------------------------------- * KZT5.0 bn. at face value. In case of successful offering of announced bonds volume, the number of bonds of given issue will grow to 11,954,899 copies, that corresponds to KZT11,954.9 m. of debt in face value. The repeated auction will be held by the specialized trades, the order of which is regulated by the rules of internal KASE document "Regulations on trade conducting methods", which is available on http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/methods.pdf.I Bids for participation in the specialized trades may be submitted only by KASE members of "К" category (right to participate in trades in government securities circulating on the exchange), which are revised by the rules mentioned below as primary dealers. Investors can submit applications through these legal entities. Full list of KASE members of "K" category is available on the exchange's web-site at http://www.kase.kz/kasemembers/ The bonds price without accumulated interest, expressed in percentage from the security face value with the accuracy of four decimal figures price should be given n the bids as a price. By 15:00 on trades holding day primary dealers are obliged to transfer money to the account, which is used for settlements on deals with securities in compliance with the rules of Central securities depository JSC (Almaty), in the amount enough for paying for treasury instruments purchased by him (basing on assumption that all bids submitted by primary dealers and accepted by KASE are subjected to satisfying). MEOKAM, offered afterward, are issued in compliance with Rules of issue, circulation and maturity of government treasury obligations of Kazakhstan with 2-year and longer circulation term approved by the resolution of Kazakhstan Government dated June 10, 1997 #945, with amendments introduced in resolution of Government of Kazakhstan from April 2 of 2001 #437. The repeated auction will be held according to the Rules of offering of government treasury obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan (http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/mekam_placement.pdf), approved by the decision of KASE's Council on December 29 of 2004. [2006-05-23]