Speaker of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Nurlanbek Shakiev met with the Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan Maulen Ashimbaev in a narrow circle. Press service of the Parliament reported.
After that, the heads of Parliaments held a meeting in an expanded format with the participation of deputies.
Issues of building up political, economic, cultural and humanitarian ties between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan were discussed, including an exchange of views on issues of inter-parliamentary cooperation. The parties discussed trade and economic relations, outlined the goals set to increase the trade turnover between the two countries to $2 billion.
Such proposals were voiced as the creation of a joint industrial trade and logistics complex, construction of Cholpon-Ata — Almaty highway, resumption of operation of Kichi-Kapka — Besagash checkpoint, as well as the holding of the first interregional forum. The issues of removing obstacles at the border were also discussed.
Nurlanbek Shakiev noted the need to take into account the issues of the legal status of Kyrgyz migrants when considering bills in the field of migration policy of Kazakhstan.
Chairman of the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan Maulen Ashimbaev expressed interest in the further development of comprehensive cooperation with Kyrgyzstan, and also dwelled on the positive developments in bilateral cooperation. In particular, he drew attention to important decisions taken during the official visit of the President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the Kyrgyz Republic.
In particular, Maulen Ashimbaev mentioned the laying of a capsule at the construction site of a joint Kyrgyz-Kazakh industrial trade and logistics complex. «I am sure that the implementation of this project will contribute to the growth of the investment base and the establishment of direct contacts between entrepreneurs of the two states,» he said.
Touching upon the implementation of joint infrastructure projects, the Chairman of the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan voiced the readiness of the Kazakh side to take part in the construction of the Kambarata-1 HPP.
He also proposed to develop cultural and humanitarian cooperation. In particular, to perpetuate the memory, and to contribute to cultural and moral education of the younger generation, he proposed to erect monuments to the hero of the Manas epic and the great writer Chingiz Aitmatov in Astana.
