The president of Kazakhstan confirms his country’s commitment to comprehensive cooperation with Russia

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Tokayev stressed his country’s full commitment to comprehensive cooperation with Russia, adding: “Kazakhstan is not anti-Russian, we are committed to cooperation with Moscow, with which we have the longest border in the world, and there is cooperation in various fields, including trade and humanitarian relations.

He noted that the pressure with sanctions is completely counterproductive from the point of view of improving international relations, which are eroding as a result of the worsening global situation, stressing that Kazakhstan does not have products subject to sanctions, and therefore does not trade them, and also does not participate in the so-called parallel supply to Russia.

He explained that trade with the Russian Federation is growing, as the volume of Kazakh-Russian trade has reached 25 billion dollars, and recently the Russian technical-scientific exhibition “innprom” was successfully held in Astana, where a Russian delegation headed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited it.

He noted that Kazakhstan is obliged to take into account the sanctions imposed against Russia and is in contact on this issue with relevant international organizations, calling for finding a mutually acceptable basis for negotiations on peace between Russia and Ukraine, saying: “the world is approaching the dangerous point of a confrontation with deadly consequences for the majority of humanity,” according to TASS.