§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what response the UK Ambassador made to the proposal by the Kazakhstan Government to change the country's capital city. [110695]
§ Mr. VazIt is not for our Ambassador to comment on the change of Kazakhstan's capital city, which transferred formally from Almaty to Astana in June 1998.
The British Embassy in Kazakhstan, which is also responsible for Krygyzstan, is still situated in Almaty, as are the Embassies of our EU partners and most other countries. We and our EU partners keep the question of transferring our Embassies to the new capital under regular review.