Kazakhstan, Italy have common approaches to the regional and international policy issues ? Senator

ASTANA. May 6. KAZINFORM Today Vice Speaker of the Parliament Senate Mukhambet Kopeyev has met with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Senator Alfredo Mantika, Senate press service said.
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Kopeyev emphasized active Kazakh-Italian relations and spoke for further promotion of the ties on inter-parliamentary level. A Kazakh-Italian Cooperation Group functions in the Upper House of the Parliament. ?Kazakhstan considers Italy to be a reliable political and economic partner. Our countries have similar approaches to the most urgent issues of regional and global policy?, the Senate Vice Speaker said. According to him Kazakhstan and Italy possess huge potential for raising both countries? economic, political and socio-humanitarian cooperation to a new level. The Vice Speaker expressed gratitude to the Italian side for the support of Kazakhstan?s candidacy for the OSCE chairmanship in 2010 and spoke for strengthening interaction within the EU, the UN, the OSCE and other international structures. A. Mantika in turn took positive view on the Kazakh-Italian relations and pointed out that N. Nazarbayev?s visit to Italy scheduled for this summer would give fresh impetus to further strengthening of the two countries? ties. In his opinion parliamentary diplomacy plays an important role in inter-state relations, therefore activation of interaction between the groups of cooperation allows exchanging experience in law-making activity.
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