ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 16. Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz have adopted a Joint Declaration of Cooperation between their respective countries, Trend reports via Akorda.
In addition to the Joint Declaration, the official delegations signed several key documents below:
- A Memorandum of Understanding on technical cooperation between the Deutsche Bundesbank and the National Bank of Kazakhstan.
- A Memorandum of Intent to establish the Kazakhstan-Germany Institute of Science and Technology at the East Kazakhstan Technical University named after Serikbayev. This agreement was made between Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education and Germany's Federal Foreign Office.
- A Memorandum of Intent to create a Kazakh-German School. This agreement was signed by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Education, the Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Kazakhstan Association of Germans "Vozrozhdenie," and Germany's Federal Foreign Office.
On September 17, Chancellor Scholz will participate in the second "Central Asia — Germany" (5+1) summit in Kazakhstan. The inaugural summit, held in Berlin last year, led to the signing of a strategic regional partnership program.