11:52, 13 May 2009 | GMT +5
Kazakh, S Korean Presidents adopted joint statement
ASTANA. May 13. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ Presidents of South Korea and Kazakhstan have adopted a joint statement following the talks in narrow and extended formats in Akorda today.

?Kazakhstan and South Korea will raise the bilateral relations to the level of strategic partnership. The parties will exert every effort for the development of interaction in such spheres as trade, investments, environmental protection, agriculture, infrastructure and construction, science and technologies, nuclear energy, education and culture etc?, the document reads.
President Lee Myung-Bak invited the Kazakh President to visit South Korea.