Decision of KASE's Board about recognizing shares of KRF "ZANGAR" OJSC (Kazakhstan) as included into stock exchange's official "В" listing category will take effect since December 25

/KASE, December 24, 02/ - As was informed on December 20, by the decision of Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) Council dated December 20 of 2002 common inscribed (KZ1C02220016) and privileged inscribed (KZ1P02220211) shares of Open joint-stock company "KAZAKHSTAN REPUBLICAN FIRM ZANGAR" ("KRF"ZANGAR", Almaty) of have been included into KASE's official "B" listing category. This decision will take effect since December 25 of 2002 for the issued has paid KASE the entrance and the first annual listing fees on these securities and made the Agreement about listing with the stock exchange, having fulfilled terms of the point 1 of the article 19-2 of Listing rules. At KASE the securities were assigned trade codes ZNGR and ZNGRp. Quotation accuracy in the stock exchange's trade system is two decimal figures of shares' price, expressed in Kazakhstan tenge. Date of trades opening on the shares at KASE will be announced later. [2002-12-24]