Putin arrives in Kazakhstan to meet Nazarbayev and attend two summits

ASTANA, October 14 /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived for a two-day state visit in Astana, Kazakhstan, to meet Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev and attend a summit of the CIS heads of state and a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. Earlier on Wednesday, Putin visited the Vostochny cosmodrome, which is under construction in Russia’s Amur region. Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov told journalists that Putin’s trip had been granted the status of a state visit to demonstrate the high level of Russian-Kazakhstani ties. Putin paid his last state visit to Turkey in December last year. Putin who has been to Kazakhstan on working and official visits for about 20 times is paying his first state visit to the Central Asian country. According to Ushakov, Putin is to meet Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev for talks on Thursday, October 15. The two leaders may discuss the situation in Ukraine in view of the fact that Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko visited Kazakhstan last week. Regional and international problems will also be part of agenda. Putin and Nazarbayev will discuss the two countries’ interaction within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union and the situation in Syria. Three documents, including an inter-governmental agreement on interaction in launching rockets from the Dombarovsky district of Russia’s Orenburg region, will be signed after the Russian-Kazakhstani talks. Under the agreement, parts separating from rockets will fall on a Russia-leased land plot in the territory of Kazakhstan. On October 16, Putin will attend a summit of the CIS heads of state and a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the Burabay resort. Putin may have separate bilateral meetings on the sidelines of these events, including a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko who was re-elected to a new presidential term on October 11. Read more