Kazakh, Chinese FMs met in Astana
ASTANA. December 12. KAZINFORM /Serik Sabekov/ Secretary of State -Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Kanat Saudabayev has met with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Astana today.
"This is our fifth meeting. Today within the negotiations our leaders highly appraised the strategic partnership and mutual understanding between our countries. Today Presidents of Kazakhstan and China summed up the results of 2009 and have defined tasks for future", k. Saudabayev noted.
The current visit of the Chinese Leader to Kazakhstan will give new impulse to the development of friendly relations between the countries, the Kazakh FM highlighted.
In turn, Yang Jiechi thanked his Kazakh counterpart for warm words and said: "This visit can be named as fruitful although it has not finished yet".
The parties discussed the results of the countries' cooperation in 2009 including the sphere of trans-border rivers usage, realization of priority projects in oil and gas sector and other fields.
Upon completion of the meeting Yang Jiechi invited Kanat Saudabayev to make a visit to china in the first quarter of 2010