Kazakhstan – Palestine
Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the State of Palestine were established on 6 April, 1992.
Palestinian Embassy in Kazakhstan operates since 1993. Since October 2015 the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Palestine to Kazakhstan is Montaser Abu Zeid.
Since 22 of February, 2020, Aidarbek Toumatov has been the non-resident Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Palestine.
The Embassy of Kazakhstan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is responsible for the relations between Kazakhstan and Palestine.
The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev twice paid official visits to Palestine (December 1995, April 2000).
There were visits of the President of the State of Palestine, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian National Authority Yasser Arafat to Kazakhstan (December 1991 and April 1999).
The volume of trade between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the State of Palestine in 2019 amounted to 4.4 thousand US dollars (import).
The legal base of the Kazakh-Palestinian relations includes the following documents:
- Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the State of Palestine on cooperation in the field of economics and production (December 1995);
- Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the State of Palestine on the provision of free office space in the city of Astana for the needs of the Embassy of the State of Palestine in the Republic of Kazakhstan (September 2010).