The U.S. will lease a land plot in Kazakhstan for 49 years at a cost of $25.3 million to construct its Consulate General in Almaty, according to Akan Rakhmetullin, Kazakhstan’s vice minister of foreign affairs.
On March 26, the Mazhilis, the lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament, reviewed a draft law granting the U.S. government a lease for the consular premises in Almaty.
«Following the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, the head of state instructed that the U.S. Consulate in Almaty be established. To implement this directive, an agreement was signed in New York on...