OREANDA-NEWS. On 02 February 2009 was announced, that on Wednesday Astana akim I. Tasmagambetov handed over the keys form 3-room apartment to the family of Bekzhan Ontaev and Aygul Syrmanova that had triplet babies on January 8.

“I congratulate you. I wish these three children and their elder sister grow nice people and gratify you and our capital”, - he said addressing to the parents.

Astana has not seen the birth of triplet babies for several years.

“I want to say to all the young families that the population of our state is 15 million people, and that is too little. Our state has the target to join the 50 most competitive states in the world. To achieve this aim we must have many people. That’s why I want to tell all young families they should marry and create families to have many children”.- said B. Ontaev.

The children were born on the city maternity hospital #1, and from January 12 the mother and her children moved to city child’s hospital #1 where the babies were watched by the doctors.

At the moment Bikzhan temporally doesn’t work, Aigul is a housewife. Besides the newborns Sayat, Zhanat and Ayat they are bringing up 3-old Zhanerke. The family moved to Astana in 2008 from Petropavlovsk.