On the telephone conversation between the Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan and France

Nur-Sultan, April 28, 2021 – On the initiative of French side, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi held a telephone conversation with Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian

The Ministers discussed the current state of affairs and prospects of future bilateral cooperation in the political, trade and economic fields. They noted the intensification of the government-to-government and business-to-business contacts.

The sides welcomed the 14th session of the Kazakh-French Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation to be held tomorrow in Paris, the forthcoming visit by a delegation of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in May this year and the signing of a Road Map for Trade and Economic Cooperation until 2030.

They also exchanged views on international issues, including situation in Afghanistan.

French companies are among the major investors in the economy of Kazakhstan. The volume of investments from France in our country for the period from 2005 to 2020 amounted to $16.6 billion U.S. dollars, including $526.3 million during the first nine months of 2020. Mutual trade in 2020 reached $2.8 billion (exports from Kazakhstan - $1.8 billion, imports - $1 billion).