Press Releases
Ambassador Ordway's Visit to Karaganda Highlights U.S.-Kazakhstan Cooperation
June 21, 2007
U.S. ambassador John Ordway is travelling to the Karaganda oblast June 21-22 to meet with implementers of projects jointly conducted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), embassy offices, and non-governmental organizations of Kazakhstan.
USAID, the Karaganda Oblast, and the Ministry of Health are currently collaborating in a number of healthcare programs. At the office of the Karaganda Oblast Criminal and Executive System, department head Bolat Atashevich Shakuanov and the ambassador will discuss how USAID 's Project HOPE and oblast medical experts are working together to control and treatment of tuberculosis in the oblast's prisons. The ambassador will also visit the Karaganda City Maternity Hospital to learn more about activities undertaken by USAID partner ZdravPlus and Kazakhstan's Ministry of health to improve healthcare for mothers and children.
On June 21 Ambassador Ordway will meet Akim Nurlan Nigmatullin to discuss bilateral cooperation. That evening American pianist Eugenie Russo will perform music by Aaron Copland, Clara Wieck Schumann, and George Gershwin at the Shalkyma Hall.
On June 22 Ambassador Ordway will open an exhibit of photographs to illustrate the results of 15 years of U.S.-Kazakhstan cooperation in healthcare, economic and democratic reform. He will also meet with regional journalists attending a training seminar arranged by the Kazakhstani NGO, Center for Legal Support to Media Центру правовой помощи СМИ, and the embassy press office.
Ambassador visited Karaganda in March 2006 to open the American Corner in the Gogol Universal Library.