Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 28
By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev held a telephone conversation on Jan. 28, Kazakh Prime-Minister's press-service said.
"The parties discussed the issues of development of bilateral trade-economic relations," the press-service said.
Moreover Massimov and Medvedev discussed the agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council which will be held in Moscow in early February.
On January 1, 2015 the treaty between the presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus authorizing the Eurasian Economic Union went into effect. Armenia joined a day later, while Kyrgyzstan is set to join in May. Membership talks with Tajikistan are ongoing.
Edited by S.I.
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