Japan will grant to Kazakhstan credits to the sum of $1.2 billion

/PRIME TASS, Dec.09, 99/ - The Japanese government will grant to Kazakhstan the credits to the sum of $1.2 billion, according to the arrangement achieved during an official visit of Nursultan Nesarbaev, the head of republic in Japan on December 8. He has informed about that on the national TV. He has told, it is necessary to prepare the technical and economic assessments of all projects approved by the Japanese government, one of which will be construction of the gas pipeline from Central Asia through China to the Japanese seas coast for the natural gas delivery in Japan. The project of the roads reconstruction to the sum of $400 million provides connection of the Western Kazakhstan with the republican centre by the Atyrau - Uralsk - Aktjubinsk - Kustanai - Astana transport line. There are four projects of the costs from $50 to $100 million each in Astana. They are the projects of waste water clearing, potable water clearing, construction of power supply and telecommunications objects.