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February 2012
24.02.2012
By decision of the Board of Directors of "Lancaster Group Kazakhstan" JSC, Berik Kaniyev has been appointed to the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors as of 24 February 2012.


January 2012
20.01.2012
Nurlan Kapparov, formerly holding the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors at Lancaster Group, has been appointed Minister of Environment Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on appointment of Nurlan Kapparov as Minister of Environment Protection on the 20th of January 2012.


December 2011
23.12.2012
Lancaster Group’s GazMunaiOnim LLP has successfully closed sale of 100% of shares in JSC Karpovskiy Severnyi, a holder of subsoil use rights for exploration of oil, gas and condensate at Karpovskiy Severnyi exploration block in the Western Kazakhstan region.
100% shares in JSC Karpovskiy Severnyi have been acquired by JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production (KMG EP).


August 2011
26.08.11
Lancaster Group Chairman of the Board of Directors Nurlan Kapparov has been appointed Honorary Consul of the Republic of South Africa in Almaty.
Nurlan Kapparov served in many prominent positions during his career. Amongst those are Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, President and CEO of Kazakh national companies KazTransOil and KazakhOil (currently KazMunaiGas). He is also a member of, and holds various positions in a number of other institutions and foundations.
South Africa and Kazakhstan established diplomatic relations in 1992, and eleven years later, on 5 March 2003, South Africa opened its Embassy in Almaty. To date Kazakhstan has not yet established a residential presence in South Africa, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recently announced plans to open a number of new embassies, including one in Pretoria. 
Since April 2009, HE Ambassador Askar Mussinov, Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to the UAE, is also the non-resident Ambassador for Kazakhstan to South Africa.
Developing the trade between the two countries has been slow, but total trade grew from US$ 1,06 million in 2005, to US$ 18,95 million in 2010. Improving on this is a major priority for both governments, and a number of steps are in place to increase official contact and cooperation.


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