General information
Diplomatic relations were established on February 19, 1992.
The Embassy of Kazakhstan in Austria was opened in 1995.
The Austrian Embassy in Kazakhstan was opened in 2007.
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Austria is Mukhtar Tileuberdi.
Ambassador of Austria to Kazakhstan is Willy Kempel.
Political cooperation
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Federal President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 20, 2022.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Austria in 1993, 2000, 2004 and 2012.
President of Austria Heinz Fischer visited Kazakhstan in 2010.
Foreign ministers of the two countries met within the framework of bilateral and multilateral events in 2022 (January 19, June 21 – Vienna, December 1 - OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Lodz, Poland).
Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs Murat Nurtleu met Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg at the 30th OSCE Ministerial Council in Skopje, North Macedonia on November 30, 2023.
Trade and economic cooperation
In 2023, the volume of mutual trade amounted to $332.6 million (export – 9.7 million, import – 322.9 million); in 2022 – $202.7 million (export – 4.7 million, import – 198 million).
From 2005 to the 3rd quarter of 2023, the gross direct investment inflow from Austria to Kazakhstan totaled $3 billion.
The Kazakh-Austrian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Agricultural, Environmental, Industrial, Technical and Technological Cooperation (IGC) has been working since 2009. The 11th meeting of the IGC was held in Graz, Austria on April 20, 2023.
The Kazakh-Austrian Business Council has been operating since 2012 (the 8th meeting was held in Astana on September 22, 2021).