Working trip of the Kazakh Ambassador to Cluj

On February 3-5, 2020 Ambassador Nurbakh Rustemov paid a working trip to Cluj county, during which he held talks with the Mayor of the city Cluj-Napoca and the regional Prefect, representatives of business and the academic community.

During the meeting with the leadership of the region, Mayor of Cluj-Napoca Emil Boc and Prefect of Cluj County Mircea Abrudean expressed their readiness to support the initiatives of the Kazakh side to hold cultural events in the city, including the establishment of a monument to the great Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbayev, holding a conference on the 750^th anniversary of the Golden State and days of culture of Kazakhstan.

Within the framework of meetings with the management of the Technical University and the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, the Romanian side expressed interest in further deepening of cooperation, mainly on the issue of increasing the number of exchanges of students and teachers with Kazakh universities (on the basis of the international program "Erasmus").

The Technical University is a leader in such educational fields as IT, automatics, robotics, and digitalization not only in Romania, but also throughout the EU. In turn, graduates of the University are in great demand among the world's leading companies as qualified specialists.

During the discussion with the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Cluj county Mr. Stefan Dumitru, the possibilities of cooperation within the framework of the international financial center Astana and Astana Hub were considered. The parties noted the importance of enhancing relations in the IT, agricultural and educational spheres.

An important point of the meetings with the business community was the negotiations on the organization of the economic mission of Cluj county in Nur-Sultan and Karaganda. Representatives of the largest companies in the agricultural, railway, banking, IT and energy sectors of the region offered to pay a visit to Kazakhstan before the end of the first half of this year, which may be headed by the Mayor of Cluj-Napoca Mr. E. Boc.