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11-20-2006 Regnum News - In 2024, Kazakhstan is supposed to take the track of sustainable development. It is the main task of the concept of sustainable development approved recently by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. In a interview to a REGNUM correspondent one of the document authors Nurlan Iskakov, Minister for Environment Protection, deputy chair of the sustainable development council, said that the concept will be the basis for preparing and adopting all governmental programs and legislation. The concept is supposed to establish balance of economic, social, environmental and political aspects of the republic’s development. According to the minister, under estimations by researchers, if the current situation does not change, the country’s energy resources can be exhausted within 15-20 years. “Really, such wasteful, irrational usage of natural resources can bring about such outcome. So, I want to say, even running ahead, that there is an instruction by the president and we have already started implementing it, ad it is also fixed in our concept on necessity to use renewable natural resources. Kazakhstan has great opportunities, potential in this field. We mean wind power electricity, solar and geothermal power engineering,” Iskakov said.