Kazakh Foreign Ministry attracts over 2.2 trillion tenge of investments since 2005

Kazakh Foreign Ministry attracts over 2.2 trillion tenge of investments since 2005

Over the past 18 years, the Investment Committee of the country's Foreign Ministry has attracted more than two trillion tenge. About 1,500 investment contracts were concluded, including 125 agreements in the service sector. Investments were made into the construction of warehouses, educational and healthcare facilities, as well as passenger transportation services. A total of 216 investment contracts involved the provision of land grants in-kind, which has led to the creation of over 37,000 new job opportunities, as announced by Deputy Foreign Minister Almas Aidarov at a meeting of the Investment Headquarters chaired by Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov. Aidarov highlighted that state in-kind grants are provided based on a list of priority activities both in the production of goods and services and are subject to special cases that do not require auctions. In-kind grants are allocated by local administrations in agreement with the Land Administration Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture. Smailov instructed responsible state agencies to update the regulatory legal acts to improve the law enforcement practice of allocating land grants in-kind.