Working visit to Latgale

On July 28, 2022, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Latvia Timur Primbetov made a working trip to the Latgale region and the city of Rezekne.

T.Primbetov met with the First Deputy Mayor of Rezekne for Economic Development Aleksey Stets. The meeting was also attended by the head of the Rezekne Special Economic Zone Krista Freiberga, the head of the development department of the city Georgy Orlov and the Chairman of the Board of the Kazakhstan-Baltic Association for Economic Development Alexander Vidyakin.

The parties discussed the prospects for cooperation in the economic, cultural, humanitarian, educational and scientific fields, and tourism. The Kazakh diplomat got acquainted with the development plan of the city and the Special Economic Zone.

During the working trip, T. Primbetov also visited the College of the State Border Guard Service of Latvia on the occasion of the start of a training course for specialists (dog handlers) from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan as part of the 10-phase of the BOMCA Border Management Assistance Program in Central Asia, which is operated by the State Border Guard Service of Latvia.

Deputy Head of the BOMCA Program Vladimir Zaguzovs and Director of the College Mariks Petrushins highly appreciated the professional level of training of Kazakh border guards, as well as the active and fruitful participation of our country in the implementation of the BOMCA Program.