Kazakhstan president cancels foreign trip on health concerns
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The office of Kazakhstan's president says he won't participate in Thursday's meeting of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
According to an official statement, 76-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev is undergoing "planned treatment in connection with a cold" and "until the end of this week the head of state's participation in international events is not planned."
The statement was posted on the Facebook page of Nazarbayev's press service.
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Kazakhstan, which has strained relations with Armenia, had not previously announced such a visit, but Armenia had.
Nazarbayev has ruled Kazakhstan, the richest nation in Central Asia, since 1989.