Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov and high officials considered measures to implement tasks announced by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in his annual state-of-the-nation address delivered on Sept. 2.
During a Sept. 3 government meeting, Bektenov emphasized that the new address “is an important and timely document, each line of which is dictated by the current realities and challenges of the time”, reported the Prime Minister’s press service.
“As the President emphasized, we will be able to achieve this through structural changes in the economy. Such transformations in the industries have already reduced the share of the mining sector and accelerated the growth rate of the manufacturing industry…The President clearly focused on those problems that require the dedicated concentration of efforts by the government and akimats (local administrations),” he noted.
Bektenov emphasized the importance of an adequate spending of budget funds. It is also necessary to strengthen the work to ensure the revenue side of the national budget, he said.