The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs discussed plans for evacuating Kazakh citizens from the Middle East
01/03/2026
According to Air Astana, as of March 1, 735 people are awaiting departure, the vast majority of whom are Kazakh citizens.
On March 1, the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan held a meeting of the Operational Headquarters on the situation in the Middle Eastern countries. The headquarters includes representatives from the Civil Aviation Committee, the Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan JSC, Kazaeronavigation RSE, as well as the airlines Air Astana, Fly Arystan, SCAT, and VietJet Kazakhstan (Qazaq Air).