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The meeting took place as part of the working visit of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Mikhail Mishustin and Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov
Mikhail Mishustin held talks with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov
Mikhail Mishustin held talks with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov
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Mikhail Mishustin and Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov
O. Bektenov: Dear Mikhail Vladimirovich, I am glad to welcome you to Astana.
This is our first meeting this year. I consider it an excellent opportunity to sum up our joint work last year and outline prospects for cooperation.
Taking this opportunity, I would like to congratulate you on the 20th anniversary of the signing of the treaty on the Kazakh-Russian state border. Russia has been and remains a key strategic partner and ally for Kazakhstan.
Thanks to the joint efforts of the heads of state – Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, bilateral cooperation has been brought to a qualitatively new level.
The state visit of the President of Russia to Kazakhstan in November last year once again confirmed the allied nature of relations between our countries.
An important task for the two governments is to ensure the full practical implementation of all the agreements reached at the highest level. Including increasing the volume of bilateral trade to 30 billion dollars.
Kazakhstan pays special attention to the development of interregional and cross-border cooperation. We positively evaluate the results of the anniversary, XX Forum of Interregional Cooperation in Ufa. The next, XXI forum is planned to be held this year in Kazakhstan, in the city of Uralsk. This format, in our opinion, demonstrates its effectiveness from year to year and is a link between the regions of our countries.
I am confident that the current year will be rich in terms of joint events and mutual contacts at various levels.
As I have already said, Russia is one of our main trading partners. In 2023, the volume of trade turnover increased and amounted to more than 27 billion dollars. In principle, good results were also achieved over the 11 months of last year – more than 24 billion.
It is important for us to continue to maintain this positive trend.
The volume of mutual investments is consistently increasing. Over the past 20 years, Russian investors have invested more than $25 billion in direct investment in the economy of Kazakhstan. Over the same period, Kazakhstani companies have invested $8.7 billion in the Russian economy.
In just nine months of last year, the gross inflow of Russian investment was 43%. And the total amount today is 2.8 billion dollars. More than 23 thousand companies with Russian participation operate in Kazakhstan. This is almost 40% of the total number of enterprises with foreign capital.
We are interested, naturally, in the creation of new production facilities, in the implementation of new joint projects. We offer Russian companies to take an active part in the implementation of various types of joint investment projects in Kazakhstan.
The intergovernmental commission on cooperation plays a special role in solving a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation and increasing trade turnover. We also see positive results from the implementation of the comprehensive economic cooperation program for 2021–2025.
In this context, we consider it appropriate for our responsible government agencies to begin developing an updated program for the coming years.
The cultural and humanitarian sphere is also filled with practical content. The holding of cross-cultural Days of our countries has become a significant event. The cultural project “Russian Seasons” and the program “Big Tours” have been successfully implemented.
Among recent events, one can note the opening of a bust of the classic Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev in Kazan and the showing of the opera “Abai” in the Kazakh language at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
Dear Mikhail Vladimirovich, the Government of Kazakhstan is ready to continue to closely interact and develop full-scale cooperation in all areas.
Please, the floor is yours.
To be continued…
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