ASTANA (KAZAKHSTAN) June 14-
The waiver of the visa for Malaysians travelling to the Republic of
Kazakhstan is indeed a welcoming news , Minister of Industrial Development Awang
Tengah Ali Hasan said.
In welcoming the announcement on the matter by the Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and New Technologies of Kazakhstan, A.
Issekeshev, Awang Tengah said it would certainly augur well for the peoples of
both nations to make business investments.
He said this at a bilateral meeting between him and
Issekkeshev after he paid a courtesy call on the deputy prime minister at his
office, here yesterday afternoon.
Without mentioning the date of its effect, Issekesshev said
it was approved by the Kazakhstan government on June 11 affecting ten nations
including Malaysia.
Issekeshev also said a task force should be formed between
the government of Sarawak and Kazakshtan to ensure that the trade and
investment mission was a success.
He pointed out that Kazakhstan had many resources for those
interested to invest such as in the area of oil and gas, nuclear energy,
agriculture, tourism, geology, wheat, minerals and other fields among others,
and its location that was close to China and Russia could be used to supply
Sarawakian products.
Meanwhile, Awang Tengah in his deliberation also formally
invited Issekeshev to visit Sarawak together with investors from Kazakhstan to
invest in the many types of industries available in Sarawak.
Kazakhstan could supply manganese and tin ore to Sarawak and
to make Sarawak as its distribution centre for its products such as wheat for
the Asean market, he said.
“The strategic location of Sarawak will make it a good base
for Kazakhstan to market its products to ASEAN countries which has over 600
million people”, he said.
Awang Tengah, who is also the Second Minister for Resource
Planning and Environment and Minister for Public Uitilities also assured the
deputy prime minister that his officials would make a follow-up trip to
Kazakhstan deliberate more on the potential
investments to be made by Sarawak investors and vice-versa.
He said the potential areas of investments in Sarawak, among
others, were in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy, halal hub, education,
timber industry, furniture,oil palm, integrated property development and
tourism.
Malaysia was also known for its pharmceutical products,
electronic, biotechonolgy and a major exporter of rubber, among other
things, he added.
Yesterday, the Sarawak delegation came to Astana, the
capital city of Kazakhstan to continue with its mission to hold the Trade and
Investment Opportunities Forum in Sarawak and business match making meeting with
the Astana business people, the first one was held in Almaty, the financial
centre of Kazakhstan.
Also present at the meeting were, Sarawak State Assembly
Speaker Asfia Awang Nassar, Hidayat
Abdul Hamid, Malaysian Ambassador to Kazakhstan
and STIDC General Manager Sarudu
Hoklai.
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