GOVERNMENT OF
REPUBLIC OF KAZAKSTAN

Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov paid a working visit to Uzbekistan

The sides discussed further expansion of trade-and-economic ties.

Today Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov paid a working visit to Uzbekistan.

In the course of the visit, K. Massimov met President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan.

The sides discussed further expansion of trade-and-economic ties.

I. Karimov noted that in the course of the yesterday’s telephone talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan they had discussed acute issues of inter-state relations and bilateral trade-and-economic and intra-regional cooperation.

In the course of today’s talks in Tashkent the sides dwelt on expansion of near-border trade, interaction on water issues and in energy realm, and on deliveries of agricultural produce from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan.

The sides pointed to a vast potential of further expansion of trade-and-economic ties and reiterated interest to joint combat against challenges posed by the global financial crisis.

Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Press Service