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1999 Kazakhstan Special Weapons News

• U-S - KAZAKHSTAN Voice of America 20 December 1999 -- U-S Vice President Al Gore and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev have presided in Washington over the sixth annual session of the U-S - Kazakh joint commission.
• U.S. AND KAZAKHSTAN SIGN "DEFENSE COOPERATION PLAN FOR 2000" December 20, 1999 -- The United States and Kazakhstan agreed to extend the existing Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Defense Conversion Agreement to continue economic adjustment activities in four sectors of Kazakhstan. Both sides also agreed to amend the CTR Weapons of Mass Destruction of Infrastructure Elimination Agreement to include expansion of biological weapons threat reduction activities in Kazakhstan.
• RUSSIA / KAZAKHSTAN Voice of America 14 July 1999 -- RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN HAVE RESOLVED THEIR DIFFERENCES OVER PAYMENT FOR THE BAIKONUR COSMODROME.
• RUSSIA / KAZAKHSTAN Voice of America 13 July 1999 -- THE REAL REASON KAZAKHSTAN SUSPENDED LAUNCHES FROM BAIKONUR IS THAT RUSSIA HAS NOT PAID ITS BILL -- AND KAZAKH OFFICIALS WANT TO FORCE THE ISSUE.
• FACT SHEET: SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENT USIA 26 January 1999 -- "The Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) signed today by the U.S., Russia and Kazakhstan provides critical protection for sensitive U.S. technology used in the launching of U.S.-licensed spacecraft," the State Department announced January 26.

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