Kazakh PM Karim Masimov resigns – presidential press service

ALMATY, Sept 24:  Kazakhstan’s longest serving prime minister, Karim Masimov, has resigned, the country’s presidential press service announced today.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev had accepted Masimov’s resignation, a presidential decree published on the press service’s web site, www.Akorda.Kz, showed.
Masimov had been prime minister of Central Asia’s largest economy since January 2007.
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