ON NOVEMBER 02 INITIAL ADDITIONAL OFFERING AUCTION OF ATYRAU REGION SECOND AND THIRD ISSUE MUNICIPAL BONDS WILL BE HELD AT KASE

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/KASE, Nov 01, 01 official press-release of Exchange/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) reminds that initial additional offering of second and third issue inscribed coupon bonds of Atyrau region local executive body will be held on November 02, 2001 in the Trade system of KASE. The issuer is local executive body of Atyrau region (akimat). Financial consultants of the issuer are DB Securities (Kazakhstan) OJSC (Almaty), Kazkommerts Securities OJSC (Almaty), Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC (Almaty). The legal advisor of the issue and the issuer is White & Case LLP (Almaty). Financial agent of the issuer is the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange CJSC (Almaty). The register on bonds is maintained by the Central Depository of Securities CJSC (Almaty). The market-maker of bonds is Kazkommerts Securities OJSC. On June 08, 2001. international rating agency Moody's Investors Service, Inc gave Atyrau region ratings of issuer of debt obligations in foreign and national currency at the level "B1" with positive forecast. The bonds were admitted to the Exchange on September 19, 2001 based on the decision of the Board of KASE and decision of the Exchange Council of the same date. Following are the parameters of the issue announced by the issuer and his financial consultants and also main parameters: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type of securities inscribed coupon bond indexed by the KZT/USD exchange rate fluctuation Issue number 2 3 NIN KZE4KY020023 KZE4KY050038 KASE trade code ARU024.002 ARU060.003 IRBIS registration number 2/24ARU 3/60ARU Face value, USD 100.00 100.00 Circulation begins on (first accumulated interest accrual date) Sept 26.01 Sept 26.01 Maturity Sept 25.03 / Sept 24.06 / (structure/actual) Sept 25.03 Sept 25.06 Circulation term 730 days (2 years) 1825 days (5 years) Coupon semiannual semiannual Coupon rate 8,00% APR 8,60% APR Coupon payments dates March 26.02/ March 26.02/ (planned / actual) 1 March 26.02 March 26.02 2 Sept 25.02/Sept 25.02 Sept 25.02/Sept 25.02 3 March 26.03/March.03.03 March 26.03/March 26.03 4 Sept 25.03/Sept 25.03 Sept 25.03/Sept 25.03 5 - March 25.04/March 25.04 6 - Sept 24.04/Sept 24.04 7 - March 25.05/March 25.05 8 - Sept 24.05/Sept 26.05 9 - March 25.06/March 27.06 10 - Sept 24.06/Sept 25.06 Register fixing date 3 working days 3 working days (coupon, maturity) Announced issue volume, KZT 1,880,663,000.00 870,746,576.00 Floated volume, KZT actual/365 actual/365 ------------------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- Auction date Nov 02.01 Nov 02.01 Settlement date (till 4:00PM ALT) Nov 05.01 Nov 05.01 Accumulated interest by auction date 0.898630% 0.966027% Volume of additional issue, tenge 1,851,123,000.00 869,269,576.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coupon accrual begins on the day following the day when the financial agent transfers the money for purchased bonds into the issuer's account, and continues throughout the circulation term, including maturity day. The issuer has the right to call back the bonds by paying the coupon for their actual outstanding period during the next coupon accrual period. Applications are to be submitted in the trade system of KASE from 9:00AM till 12:00AM Almaty time. Clean price of bond without accumulated interest will be a subject of an auction, which is entered into the trade system of the KASE as a price in percents of the face value expressed with four figures after the decimal. The number of bonds is stated at their face value. Bids are satisfied by the results of the auction and after the cut-off procedure conducted by the issuer in increments of one thousandth of clean price. Bids are cut if the prices shown there exceed the cut-off price stated by the issuer. Bids with the prices that are higher or equal to the cut-off price are satisfied at an applied price. The issuer has a right to satisfy only a part of bids, price in which is equal to cut-off price. In this case bids are satisfied according to giving order. Only competitive bids are accepted at auction. Bids can be submitted only by members of category "K" of KASE (right to participate in trades in government securities, which are admitted to the Exchange). Investors may submit applications through brokerage-dealing companies, which are the KASE members in this category. Complete list of KASE members holding category "K" is published on (http://www.kase.kz/KASEMembers/) web site of the Exchange. According to resolutions of the Board of the National bank of Kazakhstan "On investing of pension assets in bonds of local executive body of Atyrau region with maturity in year 2003" and "On investing of pension assets into bonds of local executive body of Atyrau region with maturity in year 2006", kazakhstani pension assets management companies and State accumulating pension fund (Almaty) are allowed to acquire bonds of Atyrau region of mentioned issues for pension assets. All settlements regarding the purchasing (including at the auction), servicing and repayment of the bonds are made in Kazakhstani tenges at the KZT/USD official rate of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, effective on the dates prior to settlement dates. Investors will pay for the bonds purchased at the auction through organizations, which have accounts in Central Depository of Securities CJSC (Almaty). Issue, circulation and redemption procedures of the bonds are regulated by the "Issue, floatation, circulation, repayment and servicing rules for mid-term currency government securities of the local executive bodies", which was approved by the resolution #1139 of the Government of Kazakhstan, dated September 4, 2001. The securities being offered are the government securities, which are issued in non-documentary form to receive financing resources for 4 Regional Investment Projects (RIP), which will be implemented in the region by the issuer in compliance with Loan granting rules of the Government of Kazakhstan and local executive bodies of Kazakhstan, approved by the resolution #1440 of Government of Kazakhstan, dated September 22, 2000, as well as by the resolution #1030 of the Government of Kazakhstan "On regional investment program and borrowings of local executive body of Atyrau region", dated August 3, 2001. The RIP includes following projects: - Providing gas supply to the settlements (contractor Atyraugasstroi LLP, 1998-2001, total financing - KZT6,109m); - Construction of water purification mini facilities (Rytas CJSC, 2001, KZT431m); - Road construction (Oblys Joldary HME, 1998-2001, KZT7,567m); - Small and mid-sized business support, financing of final borrowers through the accounts of borrower-banks (2000-2001, KZT1,914m). The projects of the Atyrau region RIP passed the expert examination at the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economy and Trade of Kazakhstan. Based on presented conclusions of the ministries, there are no remarks on these projects. More detailed characteristics of the projects and RIP was given in news blocks of agency IRBIS (Almaty). First issue of Atyrau region municipal bonds ($100, KZT650m, July 10, 00 - July 10, 01, semiannual coupon at 10.99% APR) was floated completely and paid out in full and repaid by the issuer in a strict accordance with the servicing and repayment schedule.