Vice-Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kairat Torebayev paid a working visit to Yerevan

Vice Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kairat Torebaev paid a working visit to Yerevan on 13-14 May 2021 to prepare the 8th meeting of the Kazakh-Armenian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation (IGC), which is planned in Nur-Sultan at the end of May 2021.

During the visit Kairat Torebaev held negotiations with the acting Minister of Economy, co-chairman of the IGC Vahan Kerobyan, as well as meetings with the leadership of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures, the Ministry of High-Tech Industry, the President of the Yerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the head of the Union of Domestic Producers, the Community of Exporters, representatives of importers and transport companies of Armenia. As a result of the negotiations, a working meeting was held on the upcoming meeting of the IGC with the participation of the relevant state bodies of the Republic of Armenia.

During the negotiations, the prospects for bilateral trade and economic cooperation, the existing problematic issues faced by entrepreneurs in trade between Kazakhstan and Armenia, ways of solving them, as well as issues of the 8th meeting of the IGC were discussed in detail, an agreement was reached on holding an online business forum between Kazakh and Armenian companies on the eve of the meeting of the IGC.