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SUMMARY
SELF-CONFIDENCE IS A POWER
Bowie
The task of long-term priorities selection, specifying objectives for 1998-2000 and elaboration of Action Programme for the next year is an extremely complicated affair. It's impossible to envisage everything as well as to foresee all difficulties which will be encountered on this path. But elaboration of these long-term priorities immediately disciplines everybody, and adds concentration to the work, which we lack now.
Many representatives of our generation won't live to the time when this strategy will be realized. Our chidren will estimate its reality and correctness of the work, implemented by us. It will also be analysed by the world community estimating our ambitions and decisiveness through watching our everyday activities.
Enormous domestic and external difficulties are in store for us on this long way. There have been many countries unable to elaborate strategies of their development and there are even more examples when certain states haven't been able to realize their plans.
Inability of leaders, circumstances or weakness of their political willpower have led to failure of the dream.
We are not insured against it either, if we won't overcome entropy, and concentrate all our power on main directions, demonstrate firmness and flexibility, discipline and creativity.
Our chronic disease is that we gradually forget about the main goals under the pressure of concerns and routine, do easy and sometimes unnecessary jobs and put off difficult but strategically important tasks "for later on". That's why we should clearly define priorities and every coming morning think what can be done to advance to the goals and then in the evening summarize estimate effectiveness of our day's work.
We shall work out specific three-year and annual programmes of realization on all seven priorities by the end of the year, which subseguently will constitute the basis for development programmes and budget.
The structure of the Government will be complied with our strategic priorities and plans in view.
From this year onwards activities of the President, the Government, the Parliament and the local authorities will be subjected to our common strategy realization.
Each Minister of the Kazakhstani Government will have a strategic working plan and quarterly report on his Department's activities for will implementation of its specific items. My fellow-citizens,
Every year I shall report back to you over the implemented and outstanding activities explaining the reasons. In each annual report I shall put new objectives for the next year in order to move further to our strategic goals.
A great number of sceptics will consider these plans unreal due to a number of difficulties facing us. Some people will consider our mission and strategy as an idle talk. Others will say that Central-Asians, in particular Kazakhstanis, are not able to become "real" Snow Leopards.
As a Kazakh saying has it: "Dust doesn't stick to a quickly walking person". Thus, time will put everything on its proper place, and he who walks will cover any distance.
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