text: Tokayev: Kazakhstan - reliable and responsible energy partner of EU
  ASTANA. October 12. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan is a reliable and responsible energy partner of the European Union. Kazakh Senate Chairman, Vice Speaker of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made it public at "Energy Security and Environment" conference held within the framework of the OSCE PA Fall Meetings in Athens last week; Kazinform refers to the Senate's press service.
  He also noted that Kazakhstan is among the top 15 countries in terms of its hydrocarbon resources and the 3rd largest energy products supplier to Europe among the non-OPEC countries after Russia and Norway.
  "In whole our energy strategy is a diversified, balanced, rational and pragmatic one", K. Tokayev emphasized.