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The heads of state discussed a wide range of issues in Russian-Kazakhstan cooperation, including in cooperation in the economic, energy, cultural and educational spheres.

Vladimir Putin highly values the closeness of the two countries’ bilateral relations and placed special emphasis on the cooperation between foreign ministries that coordinates both countries’ positions on key international problems. The President of Russia promised to support Kazakhstan’s candidature for OSCE chairmanship.

With a view to further developing their multifaceted partnership, on 3 October 2006 Russia and Kazakhstan will sign an agreement on establishing a joint enterprise to refine oil and gas, Nursultan Nazarbaev reported.

In addition, when the heads of both countries’ border regions meet in Uralsk, they plan to sign an agreement on simplifying border crossing and on establishing joint customs control points.

Within the Common Economic Space 38 documents have been prepared, documents which, according to the President of Kazakhstan, can be adapted for the Eurasian Economic Community and will lead to real integration.

Following the Russian-Kazakhstan high-level talks, Russia’s Deputy Transport Minister, Aleksandr Misharin and Kazakhstan’s Transport and Communications Minister, Askar Mamin, signed the following documents: the Agreement on Creating Favourable Customs Duty Rates for Transporting Kazakhstan’s Commodities in Russian territory and Russian Commodities in Kazakhstan and the Intergovernmental Agreement on Tariffs and Processing Trade through Kazakhstan’s Railway System. The documents were signed at the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakhastan President Nursultan Nazarbaev.