Unofficial translation
Footnote. The title - as amended by the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 14.07.2026 № 615 (shall be enforced from the date of its first official publication).
In accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 29 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On State Secrets” the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan HEREBY RESOLVES:
Footnote. The preamble – as amended by the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 14.03.2024 № 186 (shall be enforced upon the expiry of ten calendar days after the day of its first official publication).1. To approve the attached Rules for access of foreign citizens and stateless persons to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Paragraph 1 – as amended by the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 14.07.2026 № 615 (shall be enforced from the date of its first official publication).2. This Resolution shall be enforced from the date of signing and shall be subject to publication.
Prime Minister
of the Republic of Kazakhstan
| Approved by the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated February 15, 2002 № 222 |
Rules for access of foreign citizens and stateless persons to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Footnote. The Rules – as amended by the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 14.07.2026 № 615 (shall be enforced from the date of its first official publication).
1. These Rules for access of foreign citizens and stateless persons to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as the Rules) have been developed in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 29 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On State Secrets” and shall determine the procedure for the access of foreign citizens and stateless persons to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. Foreign citizens and stateless persons shall be granted access to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan solely within the framework of implementation of international treaties of the Republic of Kazakhstan, subject to compliance with the requirements provided for by the Rules for Transfer of State Secrets and Their Carriers to Foreign States and (or) International Organizations, approved by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
3. For the access of foreign citizens to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the authorized body of a foreign state, determined in an international treaty, shall, in accordance with the procedure established by legislation, send a petition to the head of the state body in which foreign citizens shall be granted access to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The petition shall be accompanied by a certificate confirming the powers of the foreign citizen and containing data that heshe has the right of access to classified information of hisher state of the corresponding level of secrecy.
Stateless persons shall apply for access to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the state body in which access to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan is required.
4. The head of the state body or organization where foreign citizens and stateless persons shall be granted access to state secrets shall coordinate with the national security bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan the possibility and advisability of granting access to specific foreign citizens and stateless persons to state secrets. The coordination period shall not exceed twenty working days.
5. In case of refusal to coordinate the access of specific foreign citizens and stateless persons to state secrets in the absence of possibility and advisability, the head of the state body shall send, in accordance with the procedure established by legislation, to the authorized body of the foreign state a notification on the submission of candidacies of other persons for access to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan, or to the stateless person a notification on refusal of access to state secrets.
6. Upon positive coordination, the head of the state body or organization of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall issue an order on access of foreign citizens and stateless persons to state secrets. The mutual obligations of the administration, as well as of foreign citizens and stateless persons, shall be reflected in an agreement on access to state secrets.
7. The order on access of foreign citizens and stateless persons shall contain information on the period for which access is granted, for the performance of which works access is granted, which specific information the foreign citizen and stateless person must become familiar with, and the maximum classification level of information with which familiarization is permitted.
8. Based on the order on access of a foreign citizen and stateless person to state secrets, employees of the state secrets protection subdivision (hereinafter referred to as the SSPS) or an employee responsible for work with state secrets (in the absence of the SSPS in the organization) of the state body or organization where access of the foreign citizen and stateless person to state secrets is carried out shall conduct briefing of the foreign citizen and stateless person on compliance with the requirements of the secrecy regime.
9. After the briefing, the foreign citizen and stateless person shall provide a written commitment on non-disclosure of state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan to which they shall have access.
The written commitment shall be kept in the state secrets protection subdivision of the state body or organization of the Republic of Kazakhstan for at least five years after the termination of work of foreign citizens and stateless persons with state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
10. Information on the actual access of foreign citizens and stateless persons in each specific case shall be sent to the national security bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan within twenty working days from the moment of access.
