ASTANA – The Astana Times has selected articles on Kazakhstan featured in international media worldwide this week. This week’s foreign media digest covers new investment in Kazakhstan’s manufacturing sector, growing Kazakhstan-Germany cooperation on raw materials and trade routes, the country’s call for stronger multilateral cooperation, and more.
Carlsberg Kazakhstan opens $344 million beverage plant, positioning Kazakhstan as a regional manufacturing and supply hub for Central Asia Carlsberg Kazakhstan officially opened a new $344 million beverage production facility in the Almaty Region, one of the largest recent investments in Kazakhstan’s food and beverage manufacturing sector.
The plant will expand local production for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and strengthen Kazakhstan’s role as a regional manufacturing and supply hub for Central Asia, while advancing the strategic partnership between Carlsberg Group and PepsiCo, reported the company’s press service on Oct.
1. The facility will manufacture under license PepsiCo beverage brands for consumers and customers in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Kazakhstan will serve as the primary market, while the plant will also supply products to the Kyrgyz Republic. The $344 million investment represents a significant inflow of foreign direct investment into Kazakhstan’s manufacturing sector and reflects the long-term confidence of Carlsberg Group and PepsiCo in the country’s economic outlook, workforce and consumer market.
It also highlights the role of international partnerships in bringing capital, technology and global operating expertise into Kazakhstan. The presence of Denmark’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, alongside representatives of Kazakhstan’s national ministries, the Akimat of Almaty Region, the diplomatic community, Carlsberg Group and PepsiCo underscored the project’s importance to commercial ties between Kazakhstan and Denmark.
Kazakhstan calls for new era of practical multilateralism as global trust comes under strain EU Reporter published an article on Sept. 28 about Kazakhstan’s call for renewed international cooperation at the UN General Assembly, highlighting its positions on nuclear disarmament, Ukraine, Gaza, water security, AI governance and UN reform.
“Addressing the General Debate of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi placed the restoration of trust at the center of his country’s foreign-policy message. Kazakhstan, he said, remains committed to the principles of the UN Charter and sees multilateralism not as an abstract diplomatic concept but as a practical means of finding common ground and addressing shared global challenges.
The address reflected an increasingly prominent strand of Kazakhstan’s international positioning: that middle powers can play a larger role in bridging geopolitical divisions at a time when relationships between the major powers are becoming more difficult,” reads the article.
Germany and Kazakhstan: raw materials, trade routes, and new partnerships Kazakhstan is moving into the spotlight for Germany, both economically and geopolitically. Cooperation with Central Asia is the central focus of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s visit to Berlin.
For Germany, this also involves reducing dependencies regarding key raw materials, reported Euronews on Sept. 29.