The 19th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Islamic Republic of Iran

On December 2-3 of this year, the 19^th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Islamic Republic of Iran was held in Tehran.

The delegation of Kazakhstan was headed by Deputy Prime-Minister Mr. Serik Zhumangarin, Iranian delegation by Minister of Agriculture Mr. Mohammad Ali Nikbakht.

Both sides positively assessed the dynamics of the development of trade and economic ties and investment cooperation between Kazakhstan and Iran, stressing the importance of not reducing this dynamics and further increasing cooperation in these areas.

The event was held in an open, constructive and friendly atmosphere, as a result of which the following documents were signed:

1. Protocol of the 19^th session of the intergovernmental commission on Trade, Economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Islamic Republic of Iran;
2. Plan of measures to bring the mutual trade turnover between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Islamic Republic of Iran up to 3 billion US dollars;
3. Memorandum of Understanding in the field of metrology between the Kazakhstan institute of Standardization and metrology and the National center of metrology of the Iranian National organization for standardization;
4. Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Islamic Republic of Iran on cooperation in the field of wheat trade;

In addition, within the framework of the session, a number of meetings were held between the business community of the two countries, where practical issues on the development of trade and economic ties were discussed.