Bahrain planning to intensify full cooperation with Kazakhstan within OIC
The issues of bilateral relations were discussed at a meeting with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Top authorities of Bahrain expressed willingness to actively encourage Bahraini investors as well as Arab and foreign banks operating in Manama, to participate jointly in the initiative of President Nazarbayev on accelerated industrial-innovative development of Kazakhstan.
The same day the Kazakh diplomat presented Prime Minister of Bahrain Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa an official invitation to participate in the VII World Islamic Economic Forum planned for this summer in Astana.
Premier of Bahrain gratefully accepted the invitation and expressed his country's interest in developing full cooperation with Kazakhstan, including provision of technical assistance to our country in the development of Islamic banking and training of Kazakhstani specialists in this area.
Then Kairat Lama Sharif presented the message from Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Yerzhan Kazykhanov addressed to his colleague Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa with the invitation to participate in the regular session of the OIC Foreign Ministers' Council in Astana. The diplomats exchanged opinions on topical regional issues.
The sides agreed in the year of the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence and 40th anniversary of independence of Bahrain to sign intergovernmental agreements on trade and economic cooperation and the promotion and reciprocal protection of investments, as well as the memorandum of understanding on consultations between the foreign ministries of Kazakhstan and Bahrain.