Alikhan Smailov offers Cuban Prime Minister to discuss Agreement on short term visa-free travels
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The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov held talks with the Prime Minister of Cuba Manuel Marrero Cruz. The meeting was held on the margins of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Sochi, Russia, primeminister.kz reports.
As Alikhan Smailov noted, Kazakhstan and Cuba demonstrate openness to strengthening and deepening bilateral cooperation. In particular, this is reflected in the fact that the level of the republic's diplomatic mission in Cuba was upgraded to a full-fledged embassy.
The trade turnover between our countries has the dynamics to increase. In this regard, we support joint work to identify priority areas of trade and economic cooperation and possible joint projects," the Head of Government said.
He also added that the countries have great potential for the development of cooperation in pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology. So, at present there is already some interaction between the relevant companies of Kazakhstan and Cuba.
We hope that this will lead to concrete results in the future," the Prime Minister stressed.
Alikhan Smailov also outlined the importance of consistent expansion of the bilateral legal framework and proposed to discuss an agreement on bilateral visa-free short-term travels of citizens of the two countries.
For his part, Manuel Marrero Cruz expressed Cuba's interest in developing deeper economic ties with Kazakhstan.
Healthcare is one of the potential areas of possible cooperation between our countries. Here we are talking about pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, medical services, academic exchange. There are different areas related to this industry, which we can develop," Manuel Marrero Cruz said.
He also indicated an interest in strengthening cooperation in such areas as the metallurgical and chemical industry, the production of building materials and agriculture.
In conclusion, Manuel Marrero Cruz invited the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan to visit Cuba at any convenient time.
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The parties discussed key issues of bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on the major multilateral and regional agenda.
Kazakhstan is committed to further strengthening multifaceted strategic partnership with the United Kingdom and welcomes active political contacts, positive dynamics in trade and investments and the broadening of the legal framework of cooperation," stated Vassilenko.
The UK highly appreciates its partnership with Kazakhstan, including within the context of regional engagement and energy cooperation with Europe," said Docherty.
The Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan noted advanced preparations for signing the bilateral Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement that is expected to move mutually beneficial intergovernmental partnership to a qualitatively new level. He also confirmed the readiness to continue promoting comprehensive dialogue between the two countries’ foreign ministries.
The session of the Strategic Dialogue focused on key areas of collaboration, including transport and logistics, critical minerals and renewable energy, environment and healthcare.
Considering ample opportunities for productive partnership in the sphere of education, Deputy Minister Vassilenko called for advancing cooperation on the issues of opening branches of UK universities in Kazakhstan and simplifying arrangements for increasing people-to-people ties. The parties also discussed exchanging information and researching British archival data on Kazakhstan and the region of Central Asia.
The Strategic Dialogue is a key mechanism of engagement between Kazakhstan and the UK. The previous session of the dialogue was held in London in December 2022 between two countries’ Foreign Ministers.
For reference: The United Kingdom is a key political, trade and economic and investment partner of Kazakhstan. 2022 marked the 30th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Last year, the volume of Kazakh-British bilateral trade increased by more than 60% compared to 2021 and reached 1.8 billion US dollars (export - 1.5 billion; import - 384.3 million). During January-August this year bilateral trade grew to 879 million (export - 559 million; import - 320 million).
The United Kingdom is among the top 10 largest foreign investors in Kazakhstan. Last year, Kazakhstan’s economy attracted 661 million in FDI from the UK and over 16 billion in total since 2005. There are also around 600 companies with British capital registered in Kazakhstan.
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Ambassador of Jordan to Kazakhstan Presented Copies of Credentials
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During the conversation, the parties exchanged views on enhancing cooperation between Kazakhstan and Jordan in the political, trade, economic and investment spheres.
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Astana and London Strengthen Bilateral and Multilateral Dialogu
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Roman Vassilenko met with Minister of State for the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland James Heappey, press service of the Kazakh MFA reports.
They discussed key areas of cooperation between Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom, including in the sphere of defence.
Recent active contacts at the political level, growing trade and economic partnership as well as fruitful people-to-people ties were also reviewed during the meeting.
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The parties also exchanged views on multilateral topics and pressing issues on the global and regional agenda during the meeting.
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