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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed the decree approving the National Security Strategy for 2021-2025, THE ASTANA TIMES reported citing reports of the Akorda press service.

The National Security Strategy that was previously approved at a meeting of the Security Council chaired by First President Nursultan Nazarbayev contains updated approaches to protecting the country’s national interests.

The strategy is one of the fundamental documents of the new system of state planning implemented following Tokaeyv’s instructions.

It focuses on countering the key challenges that are projected for the next five years, including the coronavirus pandemic and other biosecurity threats, technological changes, crisis in foreign markets, growing tensions in the global and regional arena.

Among the main priorities outlined in the national strategy are the security of citizens and the state, protection of human capital, the development of public health care, environmental safety, including the management of natural resources, and information security.

“Economic security tasks have been substantially adjusted. They depend on the transition to a growth model, resistant to external shocks, and one that stimulates productivity and increases the level of technological sophistication, creates permanent high-productive jobs and conditions for increasing the incomes of the population,” said the Akorda website.

Traditional national security components – defence capacity and the promotion of national interests – are also envisioned in the document, but with significant changes reflecting new regional and global challenges.

Preventive mechanisms and specific measures to prevent threats have been developed that will be implemented through the National Security Risk Management Action Plan.