Kyrgyzstan is one of the main strategic partners of Kazakhstan in the region.
The President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stated: “The volume of bilateral trade has reached about 2 billion dollars. There is every opportunity to increase this figure. Investment cooperation is expanding every year, which has allowed us to successfully implement a number of joint projects. We coordinate our actions in the water and energy sector. Ties in the cultural and humanitarian sphere are strengthening,” Tokayev noted during his speech at the seventh meeting of the Supreme Interstate Council of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek.
In turn, the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov emphasized that he is committed to the course of comprehensively strengthening relations with Kazakhstan in the spirit of friendship, good-neighborliness and primordial brotherhood.
“Kazakhstan is our closest neighbor, a fraternal country that occupies a special place in the foreign policy of Kyrgyzstan, one of our main trading partners,” Japarov said.
According to the President of Kyrgyzstan, strategic partnership and allied relations are confidently developing between the states.
During the meeting, issues of cooperation in the trade and economic, transport and transit, water and energy, and cultural and humanitarian spheres were discussed.
