Today will take place the ceremony of accepting of the first parcel of the ready product of joint Kazakhstan-Russian-Kyrgyz enterprise "Zarechnoye" - NAC Kazatomprom JSC

/KASE, December 7, 06/ - NAC Kazatomprom JSC (Almaty), bonds of which are traded in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) category "A" official listing had spread today the press-release with the following contention: Quotation begin On Thursday, December 7, 2006 will take place the ceremony of accepting of the first ready product of the joint Kazakhstan-Russian-Kyrgyz enterprise (JE) with foreign investments "Zarechnoye" on the same-named field of the Otrarskiy region of the Southern-Kazakhstan oblast. The action will take place with the participation of the Prime-minister of Republic of Kazakhstan D.Akhmetov, Head of Federal Agency of atomic energy of Russian Federation S.Kiriyenko, President of National atomic company Kazatomprom JSC M.Dzhakishev, General director of Tekhsnabexport CJSC V.Smirnov, Akim of Southern-Kazakhstan region U.Shukeyev and other official persons. In the frames of the action will also take place the coordination meeting on the questions of cooperation of Russia and Kazakhstan in the atomic branch, by the end of which will be signed the number of documents on cooperation of peaceful usage of atomic energy and complex program of cooperation of Russian Federation and Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of using the atomic energy in the peaceful objectives. We'll remind that the given program is based on Joint announcement of heads of two states - President of Republic of Kazakhstan N.A.Nazarbayev and President of Russian federation V.V.Putin dated January 25, 2006 about cooperation in the field of using the atomic energy in the peaceful goals. In the frames of the program of the strategic cooperation was determined the creation of three joint enterprisers: of uranium extraction, uranium-dressing, and creation of the Russian-Kazakhstan atomic reactor with the energy blocks of the new type WBER-300. The present ceremony of accepting of the first parcel of the ready product on the field Zarechnoye - is the result of creation of the joint enterprise of uranium extraction for provision with fuel of the reactors of the Russian design. The total reserves of the field are estimated at 19 th. tons of uranium. Exiting to the production poverty at 1000 tons of uranium a year is planning to year 2009. Stakes in the joint enterprise are distributed by the following way: National atomic company Kazatomprom JSC - 49.33% shares; Tekhsnabexport CJSC (Russian Federation) - 49.33%; Atomredmetzoloto CJSC (Russian Federation) - 0.67%; Kara-Baltinskiy ore-mining combine JSC (Republic of Kyrgizstan) - 0.67%. Quoattion end [2006-12-07]