Mishustin, who also met with his Kazakh counterpart, Alikhan Smailov, said that cooperation between the two states, once part of the former Soviet Union, is based on the principles of fraternal friendship and strategic partnership.

He also stressed that mutual trade between the two countries is developing successfully, the indicator has grown by 10 percent in the last year, reaching 25.5 billion US dollars.

Referring to the agenda of bilateral relations, Mishustin noted that it is important for the parties to speed up the creation of new production chains in industry, engineering, energy and transport infrastructure.

‘And, of course, the mutual complementarity of the economic, productive and technological potentials of both the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan creates a good basis for this,’ he stressed.

All these issues, according to the Russian prime minister, are under constant control of the bilateral intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.

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