The governor of Almaty made a working visit to the capital of Georgia Tbilisi

At a meeting with the mayor of Tbilisi, Bauyrzhan Baibek noted that a number of large infrastructure projects are being implemented in Almaty, a large investment potential for Georgian businessmen is laid in the fields of logistics, tourism, and the implementation of the Smart City project.

"We got acquainted with the principles of the formation of public spaces in Tbilisi, since the main vector of development of Almaty is carried out according to the principle" City for people, not for cars ". Last year, we upgraded a third of the historic center of the city, this year we plan to reconstruct as much. The transport reform is being actively implemented through the renewal of the bus fleet, the development of the bicycle infrastructure and the introduction of the BRT. A project for the construction of LRT is being prepared. At the same time, we are interested in the experience of Georgia in terms of marketing, legislative solutions in the tourism sector, which we identified as one of the new drivers of the economy of Almaty. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Cooperation Agreement between Almaty and Tbilisi, so I am confident that 2018 will be a new stage in strengthening and intensifying bilateral relations," the Almaty’s governor said.

In turn, the Mayor of Tbilisi stressed that the two countries have always had warm and fraternal relations, also noting the need to expand cooperation between the two cities. During the meeting, Kakha Kaladze expressed interest in a number of projects implemented in Almaty in the field of sustainable transport and utilization of solid domestic waste.

"At high rates of development, megacities face common problems, including the increase in the number of private vehicles, the wear of utility networks, the utilization of solid domestic waste, etc. All this leads to a deterioration of the environment, therefore for us, as for Almaty, an important aspect is a stable system public transport. Now the car park in Tbilisi has only 700 buses, but we will continue updating it. In addition, in the next few years we plan to reconstruct the old city. I think that there is a great potential for cooperation and exchange of experience in all these areas," said the Mayor of Tbilisi.

As part of his working trip to Georgia, Bauyrzhan Baibek met with First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of the country Dmitry Kumsishvili.

The parties discussed issues of interaction in the field of tourism and improving the business climate. Today Georgia occupies the ninth position in the World Bank's "Doing Business" rating and demonstrates unprecedented progress in the development of the tourist direction. Only in 2017, Georgia was visited by more than 7.5 million tourists.

"Today Kazakhstan is in the TOP-10 countries that visited Georgia, in turn many of our fellow citizens visit Kazakhstan. We are interested in strengthening cooperation and exchange of experience in the development of the tourist cluster of the economy," said Dmitry Kumsishvili.

On the same day, the Almaty delegation got acquainted with the work of the House of Justice, where citizens are provided with a wide range of public services on the principle of a single window. A distinctive feature of the institution is that a number of public services can be obtained without leaving the car on the Drive-thgu system.

It should be noted that in 2017 the trade turnover between the city of Almaty and Georgia increased by 14.5% compared to 2016. In the city there are 51 enterprises with the participation of Georgian capital in the sphere of trade, finance, construction, medicine, etc.