Kazakhstan, France signed Protocol on establishment of Kazakh-French Presidential Commission
ALMATY. July 16. KAZINFORM /Daniyar Sikhimbayev/ OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Secretary of State-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Kanat Saudabayev has met today with Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Bernard Kouchner in Almaty within the OSCE Foreign Ministers' informal sitting. At the meeting the parties signed a Protocol on establishment of a Kazakh-French Presidential Commission.
"We have agreed that our relations rose to a level of strategic partnership after the meetings of Nursultan Nazarbayev and Nicolas Sarkozy. The document we have signed provides for establishment of a Nazarbayev-Sarkozy Commission. The Commission will be headed by our presidents and it will determine the prospects of the Kazakh-French relations. I have expressed my deep gratitude to Mr. Bernard Kouchner for consistent support of our chairmanship in the OSCE especially in implementation of N. Nazarbayev's initiative on holding the OSCE Summit in Astana. I hope we will reach a consensus on holding the Summit in Kazakhstan", K. Saudabayev said.
In turn, the French Minister stressed that France fully backed the idea on holding the OSCE Summit in Astana. "Tomorrow we will define its date", he added.
In addition, the Head of the French MFA said he had asked Kanat Saudabayev to express support to a Declaration on regulation of the situation in Kyrgyzstan which he would submit tomorrow with his German colleague. "The situation in this country remains dangerous still", B. Kouchner noted.