
Tshwane, 18 August 2021. H.E. Mr. Kanat Tumysh, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to South Africa, met with H.E. Prakarmajith Vijaye Lutchmun, High Commissioner of the Republic of Mauritius.
The main objective of the meeting was to give a boost to the process of coordinating the Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Mauritius on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons for its signing in 2022. The Kazakh side proposed to expedite and finalize all the different aspects to this end via online videoconference. The Mauritian side expressed preliminary consent with this initiative and expected to provide tentative dates for the said online event in due course.
The parties also discussed the prospects for trade, economic and investment cooperation between the two countries (in the fields of agriculture, industrial development and tourism), as well as the possibility of opening in 2022 the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Mauritius.
At the end of the meeting, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan awarded the High Commissioner of Mauritius with a Certificate of Acknowledgement and a Medal in grateful recognition of his efforts and contribution to strengthening inter-civilizational dialogue, and also presented him a book of the famous medieval Turkic scientist and philosopher Al-Farabi.