Murat Nurtleu: Kazakhstan highly values strategic partnership with Belarus
Kazakhstan highly values its strategic partnership with Belarus and is committed to further development of bilateral friendly ties – as stated by the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Murat Nurtleu, during his today’s meeting with Belarus’ Head of State Aleksandr Lukashenko
The Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister noted that, since April 2023 when he took an office, this has become his second official visit: the first one was to Moscow, “Since yesterday, we have already started discussing working issues. Kazakhstan highly values our strategic partnership. We are absolutely committed to the further development of our friendly, fraternal relations.”
According to Murat Nurtleu, a lot has been jointly achieved by Belarus and Kazakhstan over the past thirty years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, “First of all, it is probably thanks to the leaders of our states. Our presidents greatly contribute to the rapprochement of our peoples, so that our ties do not break, so that we honour traditions and the memory of the past.”
In 2022, the Belarus-Kazakhstan trade turnover amounted to $1.24bn (113.4 percent compared to the level of 2021), with a positive balance of $738.3m for Belarus. The growth of mutual trade continues in 2923: in January-April, it amounted to $387.1m (142.7 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2022).
Belarusian exports mainly include tractors, dairy and meat products, machines and mechanisms for harvesting and threshing crops, petroleum products, wood-fibre plates. The country imports communication equipment and parts for it, ferroalloys, passenger cars, unkempt cotton fibre, electric batteries, coal, raw zinc, and petroleum products.
Joint assembly plants of Belarusian machinery and equipment of MTZ, MAZ, Gomselmash and Bobruiskagromash operate in Kazakhstan.
Last year, Kazakhstan invested $60.4m into the Belarusian economy. In Q1 2023, $4.3m investments were attracted from Kazakhstan.
