Kazakhstan opens embassies in Armenia, Qatar

Gazeta.KZ, Kazakhstan
Dec 15 2006

Kazakhstan opens embassies in Armenia, Qatar

Kazakhstan today

ASTANA. Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, has signed
orders on opening embassies of Kazakhstan in Armenia and Qatar and
reorganizing the diplomatic missions to Singapore and Netherlands,
Kazakhstan Today reports.

In particular, as per the presidential orders, the diplomatic
missions to Singapore and Netherlands will be transformed into
embassies of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The embassy of Kazakhstan to Armenia will be opened in Yerevan. The
embassy of Kazakhstan to Qatar will be opened in Doha.

The new embassies will be opened "to strengthen the diplomatic
relationship", the documents say.

All four orders come into effect as from 1 January, 2007.