President Nazarbayev receives First Vice PM Shukeyev

U.Shukeyev informed the President of the results of the visit of the Kazakh governmental delegation to the USA, where negotiations on Kazakhstan's accession to the WTO were held; the President's press service reports.

"The negotiations are held on three directions: commodity group, trade in services and on systemic issues. Negotiations on trade in goods are nearing completion - there is only technical work. On trade in services - we identified ways of solution of some problem issues. Touching upon the systemic issues, the most important issue for us - the Kazakh content - was passed beyond the bilateral negotiations and brought to the multilateral format. It is great achievement for us", he said at a briefing to journalists.

The measures on maintenance of stability at the external food market were also discussed at the meeting.

"We elaborated a number of additional measures for stable prices for basic food products. The Head of the State approved these measures", the First Vice Premier said.