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Astana, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 09, 2006 According to preliminary estimates, Kazakhstan has assessed the damage to its ecology and economy as a result of a fall of a Dnepr launch vehicle to the tune of 40.7 billion tenges (around 333 million US dollars), said Governor of the Kzylorda Region Ikram Adyrbekov and reported by Itar-TASS. He noted at a meeting of the 28th special session of the legislative assembly of the Kzylorda Region that "an understanding was reached with three Kazakh research institutes which will monitor health deviations of people and will conduct environmental monitoring". By the results of the session, deputies passed a decision to send a letter to the republican leadership with a request to impose a moratorium on the use of heptyl as a fuel for missiles. On August 4, following a meeting of the Kazakh and Russian governmental commissions on studying aftermaths of the missile fall, chairman of the Kazakh commission Azamat Abdymomunov said that "economic damage from the breakdown of the Dnepr missile is calculated on the grounds of two components: expenses for assessment and overcoming of the breakdown and also damage from aftermaths of the breakdown". The Kazakh side notified that Kazakh total expenses now (without account for ecological damage) adds up to 192.7 million tenges (around 1.6 million dollars). The Kazakh side will receive an assessment of ecological damage additionally. The second round of the Russian-Kazakh talks will be held early in September. Kazakhstan intends to calculate, by that time, the full sum of damage from the fall of the Dnepr missile, fired off from Baikonur on July 26.
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