Seeing potential here, President Nursultan Nazarbayev has now publicly invited foreigners to see what Kazakhstan is really like.
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Its bigger neighbours, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have had, in Mr Karimov and Nursultan Nazarbayev respectively, one authoritarian leader since 1991.
Kazakhstan's parliament has voted in favour of holding a referendum on extending the term of President Nursultan Nazarbayev until 2020.
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Mr Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan's president, is attempting to convene a conference of all republic leaders in his capital, Alma Ata, on September 30 to discuss emergency economic measures.
The authorities in Kazakhstan issued an international warrant for the arrest of Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of President Nursultan Nazarbayev who was until last month the country's ambassador to Austria.
When the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce hosted a lunch in June for the visiting head of state from Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the person accorded the seat next to him was Djojohadikusumo.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former Soviet official, has ruled with a tempered-steel grip since independence in 1991 by focusing on the economy--Kazakhstan's GDP last year jumped 8.7%--and opening doors to outside investors.
Kazakstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev greeted Chinese premier Li Peng in Almaty's gleaming new presidential palace, the occasion amounted to more than just another in a string of top-level visits between two increasingly cooperative neighbors.
This comes a day after a summit held in Astana at which the leaders of the three countries Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed official documentation calling for the Customs Code to enter into force trilaterally, following a bilateral agreement signed between Russia and Kazakhstan on July 1.
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