From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 11:06:59 EDT
KAZAKHSTAN'S PREMIER AGAIN BEMOANS SLOW-DOWN IN
PRIVATIZATION
Qasymzhomart Toqaev told a cabinet meeting on
29 May that the pace of privatization must be stepped up,
ITAR-TASS reported. He said revenues from privatization
during the first three months of this year amounted to only
11 percent of the planned amount. Two weeks earlier, Finance
Minister Mazhit Esenbaev had similarly told the parliament
that the budget may collect only two thirds of planned
privatization revenues this year as a result of the previous
government's decision to drop four large metallurgical
combines from the list of enterprises to be privatized.
Toqaev called last month for an investigation into the
activities of the previous heads of the Finance Ministry's
Property and Privatization Committee. LF
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