Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr. 8
By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev will visit Iran, Turkey and Uzbekistan from Apr.11 to Apr.15, the president's press service said Apr.8.
Nazarbayev will visit Iran Apr. 11-12 at the invitation of Iran's President Hassan Rouhani. The two presidents will discuss the implementation of agreements reached during Rouhani's state visit to Astana in September 2014. Meanwhile, the ways to strengthen cooperation in trade and economic, investment, agriculture, transit and transport spheres and cooperation in the sphere of international and regional security will also be discussed during Nazarbayev's visit.
The Kazakh president will visit Turkey to attend the 13th Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) titled "Unity and Solidarity for Justice and Peace."
A meeting of Nazarbayev with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planned to be held during which the main directions of cooperation between Astana and Ankara will be discussed. Meanwhile, negotiations with the heads of delegations and meeting with representatives of Turkey's business community are expected on the sidelines of the summit.
Nazarbayev will visit Uzbekistan Apr.15, where he will meet with his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov. The two presidents will discuss key aspects of the two countries' relations.
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