| Headline: Clearing the air Kazakhstan style Source: Euromoney Date: January 2001 Author: Janice Cowan Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan has attracted plenty of interest from foreign investors. But tensions have grown up between foreign multinationals and the Kazakhstan government over previously agreed deals. The government feels it has been overly generous in the past, raising fears among foreign investors that old contracts will be redrafted. The president has convened a special council to discuss these issues. There’s a unique forum in Kazakhstan that allows foreign investors to sit down with president Nursultan Nazarbaev, listen while the president expresses his opinion about them – often in full and frank terms – and then respond with their view, good or bad, about the country’s prevailing investment climate. It’s called the Foreign Investors Council (FIC).
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