19:00, 20 February 2009 | GMT +5
Kazakosmos delegation to hold negotiations in Paris
ASTANA. February 20. KAZINFORM /Sara Kabikyzy/ A delegation of the Kazakh National Space Agency headed by Talgat Musabayev will pay a working visit to France, Kazinform reports.
The representatives of ?Kazkosmos? JSC will meet with colleagues from the French Space Agency (CNES) and discuss the issues of bilateral cooperation in the sphere of space.
The Kazakh delegation will visit the national space scientific center of France, meet with the head of the CNES, the president of French company ?EADS Astrium? and other representatives of the space sector of France.
Kazakh and French specialists will start preparation of an intergovernmental agreement in the field of space activity that is planned to be signed within the coming official visit of Nicolas Sarkozy in Kazakhstan this spring.