KAZAKHSTAN GIVES EQUAL RIGHTS TO FOREIGN, DOMESTIC OIL COMPANIES.

In a move intended to attract more Western investment andone that sets Kazakhstan apart from Russia and other post-Sovietstates, President Nursultan Nazarbayev issued a decree July 20giving foreign and local companies equal rights in to the developmentof the country’s oil resources, Interfax said.

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