Deficit of Kazakhstan current account in January-September of 2002 - $245 m

/REUTERS, Almaty, January 15, 03/ - Kazakhstan statistics Agency with refenrence to the National Bank informed that negative Kazakhstan balance of payment on current operations account within January-September of 2002 equaled to $244.94 m in comparison with negative balance equaling to $541.55 m within similar period of 2001. In the third quarter of 2002 there is positive balance of current account equaling to $52.9 million. Below is the data about Kazakhstan balance of payment for 9 months of 2002 compared with similar period of 2001 and data for the whole 2001: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan-Sep 2002 2001 Jan-Sep 2001* -------------------------- ------------ --------- ------------- Current account -244.94 -1,241.14 -541.55 Goods 1,692.82 1,174.73 1,140.91 Export (f.o.b.) 7,142.13 9,006.00 6,903.42 Import (f.o.b.) 5,306.19 7,667.88 5,663.37 Services -1,396.69 -1,531.07 -1,085.15 Revenues -653.26 -1,114.77 -796.58 Current transfers 112.19 229.97 199.26 Operations with capital -99.69 -197.43 -172.63 Financial operations 279.34 2332.29 1,127.02 Direct foreign investments 1,859.11 2763.19 1,899.98 Net mistakes and omissions 65.29 -893.72 -412.84 ------------------------------------------------------------------ *reference [2003-01-15]