China, Kazakhstan agree to bolster military cooperation

BEIJING. December 22. KAZINFORM China and Kazakhstan have agreed to advance the friendly and cooperative relations between the two armed forces, senior military officials from the two countries said Tuesday.
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Guo Boxiong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission met with visiting Kazak Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov Tuesday morning.

With the complex and volatile state of world affairs, it was in the fundamental interests of China and Kazakhstan and their peoples, and conducive to regional and world peace and stability to develop China-Kazakhstan military ties, Guo said.

China-Kazakhstan relations had developed smoothly since they forged diplomatic ties in 1992, Guo said, highlighting increasingly deep political mutual trust, continuously enhanced strategic coordination and mutual support in issues concerning each other's core interests.

Guo said China highly appreciated Kazakhstan's firm support in issues concerning Taiwan and Tibet.

Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie held talks with Dzhaksybekov before the meeting.

Liang said the Chinese armed forces attached importance to developing friendly relations with Kazak armed forces and were willing to further expand and boost exchanges and cooperation.

Dzhaksybekov said Kazakhstan placed a very high value on bilateral cooperation with China as well as their joint work in the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA).

He said Kazakhstan would like to work with China to implement the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and advance their military cooperation,  Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

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