We appreciate friendship with Kazakhstan, our strategic ally: Dmitry Medvedev

MOSCOW. February 27. KAZINFORM /Arnur Rakhymbekov/ Kazakhstan Ambassador to Russia Adilbek Dzhaksybekov has presented credentials to President of this country Dmitry Medvedev in Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow today, Kazinform reports.

Aide to the Russian President Sergey Prikhodko and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov attended the ceremony. By tradition the Russian Leader delivered a speech devoted to most urgent international problems and those connected with Russia-Kazakhstan relations. ?We appreciate the friendship with our strategic ally - Kazakhstan. Our partnership expands year by year. We continue active cooperation within the CIS, the EurAsEC, the CSTO, the SCO and the CICA as well as on multilateral basis within the UN and the OSCE?, D. Medvedev said.