China highly appraises Kazakh Government's attention to relations development - Vice President Xi Jinping

In a welcome speech Xi Jinping noted that Y.Kazykhanov's official visit to China "demonstrated attention of your Government to development of the Chinese-Kazakh relations of the all-round strategic interaction and partnership."

"We highly appraise it," he emphasized.

Y.Kazykhanov, in his turn, expressed gratitude to the Vice President for the reception and conveyed greetings from Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

"It is my first visit to China as the Foreign Minister, and this demonstrates that we pay significance to development of bilateral relations. Today we discussed many issues, I think that we further will work in such a close cooperation," Y.Kazykhanov noted.