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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that his country would join Russia\'s initiative to set up an international center that would provide nuclear cycle services in Russia, under the International Atomic Energy Agency\'s control, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. \"Taking into account the Kazakh nuclear power industry\'s scientific and productive potential, Nursultan Nazarbayev has decided to hook Kazakhstan to the Russian initiative to set up an international center that would provide a nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium enrichment, in Russia under the IAEA\'s control,\" Putin said at a press conference in Uralsk on Tuesday. (Interfax).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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