Kazakhstan ratifies agr't with US on cargo transit to Afghanistan.

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ASTANA, July 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Kazakhstan ratified an agreement with
the USA on the transit of special cargo to Afghanistan.
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a law on the
ratification of the Agreement between the government of the Republic of
Kazakhstan and the government of the United States of America on the
commercial railroad transit of special cargo via the territory of the
Republic of Kazakhstan connected with the participation of the United
States of America in the efforts to stabilise and restore the Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan, Kazakh official media said on Thursday.
"The agreement is aimed to support the efforts to stabilise the
situation in Afghanistan, which will favour the security in Central Asia,"
Kazakhstan's Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Umarov said earlier.
The transit will be commercial, he said, "which means that the
American side will pay for the services, works and goods bought over the
shipment of the goods via the territory of Kazakhstan."
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