Dauren Karipov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Germany, Meets with Kristina Havercamp, Executive Director of German Energy Agency (dena)

BERLIN, 11 May 2020 – Dauren Karipov, Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Germany, met today with Kristina Havercamp, the Executive Director of the German Energy Agency (dena).

The participants of the meeting discussed the prospects for further cooperation in the fields of energy efficiency and energy saving in the industrial sector and measures aimed at sustainable development of urban and municipal energy infrastructure and innovative technologies. Ambassador Karipov briefed the Ms. Haverkamp on the current status of Kazakh-German Relations, positive results of the Kazakh President's visits to Germany and his initiatives to provide special, exclusive conditions and preferences for german businesses in Kazakhstan.

The head of the diplomatic mission also reported on the establishment of a governmental task force on strategic economic partnership with the Federal Republic of Germany, headed by Roman Sklar, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, which includes deputy heads of sectoral government agencies and national companies.

Havercamp, in turn, reported on dena's activities and history of implemented projects in Kazakhstan, and also introduced further plans and initiatives for 2020. During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on possible aspects of cooperation within the Memorandum on Strategic Partnership in the field of Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency, signed in December 2019. Thanks to the new cooperation agreement with DENA's participation, it is planned to develop this year a long-term and sectoral master plan for improving the country's energy efficiency until 2030.

The meeting also included an exchange of information on measures being taken in Kazakhstan and Germany to overcome the negative economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and to support businesses in this period.

At the end of the meeting the parties agreed to review mutual proposals on cooperation and to discuss them at the management level in the nearest future.

The German Energy Agency (dena) is Germany's dederal center of expertise for energy efficiency and renewable energy. It was founded in 2000 on the initiative of the Federal Government as a private Limited Liability Partnership (GmbH). Its main activities focus on the development of energy systems with a view to optimizing energy uses and integrating renewable energy sources.