President of Kazakhstan, Chairman of People's Republic of China meet in Astana

ASTANA.  December 12. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ A meeting of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao  in extended format is being held at present  in Akorda palace.
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The Head of the State congratulated Hu Jintao and Chinese people on the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China and noted that "being an authoritative world power China plays a key role in strengthening good-neighborhood, security not only in Asia but also in the entire world and demonstrates stability and development even amid the global financial crisis".

"It is a pleasure for me to highlight good-neighbor trustful character of the Kazakh-Chinese relations. You personal understanding of development of our interaction promotes it significantly. This is your 5th visit to Kazakhstan and we the 18th meeting in the past seven years set the best pattern of trust and confidence in our relations", N. Nazarbayev said.

"The People's Republic of China and you personally expressed us great support in the crisis period having extended huge loan for the development of the Kazakh economy", the President stated.

"Today we have witnessed an important event of the new stage of our relations  construction of Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-China transcontinental gas pipeline and Caspian Sea-Western China oil pipeline", N. Nazarbayev added.

Chairman of the People's Republic of China is paying a two-day official visit to Kazakhstan.

The diplomatic relations between the countries were established January 3, 1992. To date Kazakhstan ranks the second after Russia in China's foreign trade turnover. The commodity turnover between the states made USD 12.24 bln in 2008. In January-August of the current year this figure was USD 6.2 bln (USD 3.435 bln of export and USD 2.585 bln of import).

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