Belarus, Kazakhstan to focus on trade & economic relations.

MINSK, November 26 (Itar-Tass) - The presidents of Belarus and
Kazakhstan, Alexander Lukashenko and Nursultan Nazarbayev, will hold talks
in Minsk on Thursday.
Nazarbayev arrived in the Belarusian capital late on Wednesday for a
two-day official visit and has already visited Lukashenko in the latter's
Zaslavl residence near Minsk.
President Lukashenko believes that the two countries will soon reach a
qualitatively new level in trade and economic relations by implementing
more than 30 joint projects worth three billion dollars in the near future.
Ahead of his visit to Belarus President Nazarbayev praised the prime
ministers and experts in the two countries for their good work.
"We will cooperate in the agrarian sector, in building agricultural
machines, machine tool industry and chemistry. Oil refining is also
interesting to us," the president of Kazakhstan stressed.
He thanked Belarus that was the first to support Kazakhstan's
chairmanship at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE). It starts on January 1, 2010.
Nazarbayev said that the crisis had prompted the need to solve
problems within the CIS framework. He is sure that a future Customs Union
of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia will remove all the difficulties
hindering the development of trade and economic relations.
On November 27, Nursultan Nazarbayev will participate in a meeting of
the Inter-State Council of the Eurasian Economic Community in Minsk.

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