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The Third annual Kazakhstan Global Investment Roundtable (KGIR-2019) chaired by the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin was held in Nur-Sultan, reports the press service of Kazakh MFA.

KGIR-2019 is one of the key events for Kazakhstan's business and foreign investors' community. More than 1100 heads of the world's major companies and domestic enterprises, international experts, representatives of international and state organizations took part at the event. About 600 of them are foreign participants from 41 countries. About 600 of them are foreign participants from 41 countries (the USA, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, India, Singapore, Korea, the UAE). They include the top management of the global companies such as: Cisco, Nokia, CITIC Bank Corporation, WILO SE Group, AGCO Corporation, Valmont Industries, Tyson Foods, Yildirim Group and other companies.

The participants agreed on investments and signed commercial agreements for 45 projects worth US$8.9 billion.

In particular, in the field of gas chemistry, the Akimat of Mangistau region and the Singaporean company Westgasoil signed a Cooperation Agreement to implement the project of methanol and olefins production. The project implementation will allow localizing the export-oriented production of chemicals through the development of the country's gas chemical complex.

"The Qazaq Times"