russia, kazakhstan relations

The 11th round of free trade negotiations was conducted from January 27 to 30, 2014 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Russia provides supplies of Russian-manufactured weapons to Kazakhstan, as well as assistance in maintenance and upgrade of Kazakhstani military hardware.

The topic of the Forum was “Knowledge-based Co-operation”. These groups of goods made up 90.6% of the total supply volume from Russia to Kazakhstan in 2012.According to the Russian Federal Customs Service statistics of 2012/January-July2013, Kazakhstan’s export structure to Russia consisted of mineral products 26.3% / 26.0%; machines and equipment, vehicles, instruments and devices – 32.1% / 31.6%; metals and metal articles – 14.0% / 14.5%; products of chemical industry and related industrial branches – 8.7% / 8.8%; textiles, textile articles and shoes – 11.8% / 12%. The Xth milestone Forum is planned for October 2013 in Yekaterinburg.The Russia-Kazakhstan Intergovernmental Cooperation Committee (ICC) has been in action since 1997. Since 2001 to 2012, Kazakhstan has doubled its tourism earnings.On July 15, 2014 Kazakhstan launched a pilot project of visa-free regime for 10 countries: UK, USA, Germany, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia, the Netherlands, South Korea and Japan.On June 26, 2015 Kazakhstan issued a resolution expanding the number of countries included in a trial visa-free regime and extended that regime until December 31, 2017.Starting from January 1, 2017, Kazakhstan introduced visa-free access for 20 developed countries. A Kazakhstani consulate general was opened in Kazan in 2013.Copyright © 2016 The Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Kazakhstan Rosatom State Corporation, Rosneft OJSC, Bank VTB OJSC, VEB, Mechel OJSC, Severstal OJSC invest to Kazakhstan's economy. The address was based on the principles of the Kazakh President’s earlier Manifesto “The World. Russian supplies increased by 3.3% (up to 14.6 billion USD), whereas import from Kazakhstan grew by 19.6% (up to 7.9 billion USD).Within the period of January-July 2013 the volume of mutual trade increased by 18.8% reaching the figure of 13.1 billion USD, as compared to the corresponding period of 2012. Though their numbers are dwindling, Russians still account for roughly 20 percent of Kazakhstan’s population. The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Kazakhstan has been the legal framework for The future European Commission assistance will focus on the following priority areas: promotion of the ongoing reform process at political, economic, judiciary and social level, infrastructure building, and cooperation in the energy sector. The accession negotiations between Kazakhstan and the WTO lasted 20 years and on November 30, 2015, the organization welcomed Kazakhstan as its 162nd Member.In April 2017, the General Council of the WTO announced that Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN structures Zhanar Aitzhanova would be the Chairperson of the WTO Committee for Trade and Environment in 2017.The 21st World Anti Crisis Conference was conducted with the support of the UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/67/19International financial sistem and development from December 21, 2012 on May 23, 2013 within the framework of the VI The concept of the WAC Plan, based on democratic principles and the interests of all UN member states aims at developing effective measures to overcome the economic and financial crisis, preventing future recessions and ensuring long-term balanced growth of the global economy.Kazakhstan has established diplomatic relations with 130 sovereign entities (including the Vatican City, Kazakhstan has not yet established diplomatic relations with: The overall EU co-operation objectives, policy responses and priority fields for Central Asia can be found in the EC Regional Strategy Paper for Central Asia 2007–2013. In the course of the official visit of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, to Kazakhstan on July 7, 2012, the Protocol on Amendments to the Treaty on Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance of May 25, 1992 was signed (ratified by the parties in June 2013).Intensive political contacts, primarily summit contacts between the two countries have been actively sustained. As part of the new responsibilities, the Ministry oversees activities in attracting foreign investment and promoting Kazakh exports abroad, taking away these responsibilities from the reformed Ministry for Investment and Development.As part of economic diplomacy, Kazakhstan compiled a list of 40 countries its Foreign Ministry is to target in a bid to attract more foreign investment.Not until 2005 did Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan agree to begin demarcating their shared borders. The 21st Century.” It declares Kazakhstan's commitment to building a world free of nuclear weapons and to rid humanity of wars and conflicts.President Nazarbayev chaired the January 18 UN Security Council briefing on WMD non-proliferation and related measures to better provide security for Central Asia.Kazakhstan is one of the original founding members of the In November 2016, Kazakhstan chaired first ever SCO human rights consultations.