President Emomali Rahmon today departed for a two-day state visit to Kazakhstan, according to the Tajik president’s official website.
A large group high-ranking officials, including members of the government as well heads of a number of ministries and agencies and entrepreneurs are accompanying him on his visit to Kazakhstan.
While in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, Rahmon will hold meetings with high-ranking Kazakh state officials to discuss cooperation between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan in various fields.
Recall, a Tajikistan-Kazakhstan business forum is going on in Astana today. Representatives of official structures and businesspeople being engaged in industry, agriculture, construction, tourism and pharmaceutics are reportedly participating in the forum. The parties have reportedly signed US$1.3 billion worth of cooperation agreements and plan to bring this figure to US$2 billion.
Diplomatic relations between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan were established on January 7, 1993. Diplomatic mission of Tajikistan in Kazakhstan started to operate in June, 1993. Diplomatic mission of Kazakhstan, which received the Embassy status in January 2001, has operated in Dushanbe as an independent Mission since April, 1998.
Since diplomatic relations were established, the leaders of the two states had reportedly paid eight official visits.
Tajikistan and Kazakhstan have signed 100 interstate and government-to-government agreements. The fundamental document – the agreement on basic relations was signed in January 1993. The strategic partnership agreement, signed on September 14, 2015, have a special place in bilateral ties.
The countries actively collaborate within a number of international and regional organizations such as the UN, OSCE, SCO, CICA, CSTO and CIS.
