Kazakh President meets U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick discussed a wide range of issues of trade-economic cooperation, Kazinform News Agency learned from the Akorda press service.
As Kassym-Jomart Tokayev noted, Kazakhstan attaches particular importance to the development of cooperation with the U.S., one of the country’s key investment partners.
The Head of State highlighted that Kazakhstan had created favorable climate for foreign investors.б adding that American businesses are offered broad opportunities across a range of sectors, including energy, transportation and logistics, digitalization, and agriculture.
For his part, Howard Lutnick pointed out the United States' interest in further development of joint trade and economic, industrial, transport, logistics and investment projects with Kazakhstan.
"I am glad that you got to speak to President, so that you know that he is very much looking forward to the many things we can do together," said Howard Lutnick.
He spoke about the prospects of trade-economic cooperation with Kazakhstan.
"You have great critical minerals that we can invest in together. We are thrilled that you selected Wabtec in the locomotive sector. It's an excellent and great beginning and foundation for us to build together. We very much appreciate that," Howard Lutnick. noted.
As earlier reported, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is on a working visit to New York, where his program began with a meeting with the head of the Canadian multinational company Cameco to discuss uranium sector cooperation. He later met with Jared Cohen, President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs Global Institute, Amit Sevak, President and Chief Executive Officer of Educational Testing Service, and Halle Butvin, Director of Special Projects at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Today, the Head of State held meetings with Chairman of the Board of Directors of PepsiCo Foundation Stephen Kehoe, Senior Vice President of Amazon David Zapolsky, Chief Executive Officer of Cerberus Capital Management Frank Bruno, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Corporation Michael Wirth, Meta’s Vice President and Chief AI Scientist of Meta Yann LeCun, andthe U.S. President's Special Envoy for South and Central Asia Affairs Sergio Gor.
The Head of State also had a telephone talk with U.S. President Donald Trump. In the presence of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, a ceremony was held for signing agreements with the American company Wabtec worth approximately $4.2 billion.
