Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Meets CCTS Secretary General

NUR-SULTAN, September 30, 2019 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi met with the Secretary General of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (CCTS) Baghdad Amreyev.

The meeting was focused on the 7th meeting of the Heads of States (CCTS Summit) dedicated to the CCTS anniversary on Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to be held on October 15, 2019, in Baku. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Nakhichevan Agreement.

During the meeting, M. Tileuberdi noted that the upcoming Seventh CCTS Summit would serve as a milestone in the history of the organization, which plays an important role as an international agency representing the interests of all member states. 

In turn, B. Amreyev discussed the preparations for the upcoming 7th Summit of the CCTS and reported on the ongoing work and plans on expanding economic cooperation within the framework of the Organization.

The CCTS was established in 2009 at the initiative of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Leader of the Nation Nursultan Nazarbayev. Currently, the members of the CCTS are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. In 2018, during the 6th Summit of the CCTS, Hungary received a status of the observer state in the CCTS.