Kazakhstan agrees on transit of 3 mln tones of grain through China to Southeast Asian countries

First Vice Prime Minister Umirzak Shukeyev has announced it at the Government's telephone conference on Monday in Astana.
According to him, there was considered a wide range of issues in the course of the negotiations. "Among important issues was our request on transit through the territory of China about three mln tones of grain to the Southeast Asian countries", he noted.
Umirzak Shukeyev informed that after long discussions there was given an instruction to the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, the Chinese company and railways to consider this issue and find opportunity for transit and work over the issue on the domestic consumption of China.
"It is very significant decision, we are going to have a new direction of grain export", U.Shukeyev emphasized.