4 Jul 2013 17:28

Nazarbayev: Kazakhstan ready to host Winter Olympic Games

ASTANA. July 4 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan will bid to host Winter Olympic Games, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.

"After holding the Universiade [in 2017] we would like to bid to host Winter Olympic Games in Almaty," he said at the ceremony opening the Astana professional club in the Kazakh capital city on Thursday.

"We have done everything for that [hosting the Olympiad]," the president added.