A number of documents were signed following the meeting.
Mikhail Mishustin’s conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin
Mikhail Mishustin: Mr Mamin, esteemed friends, I am delighted to be greeting all of you. Welcome to Kazan and the Russian Federation. First of all, we would like to convey the warmest greetings and wishes to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and the First President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. We would also like to wish you a very happy holy Muslim month of Ramadan. We sincerely cherish our friendship, neighbourly and warm relations and the active implementation of our bilateral agenda. Our trade and economic cooperation is speeding along at a good pace, and we are continuing to reinstate our bilateral trade volumes that have, alas, taken a downturn due to the pandemic. We have marvelous collaboration opportunities in fields such as industry, the defence sector, renewable energy sources and the digital economy, and together we frequently discuss these things in great detail. I am well aware that Kazakhstan also prioritises these sectors, and, of course, I suggest we discuss these aspects more actively within the intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation.
Today, we are also going to sign highly important documents that took us several months to draft, including a comprehensive programme of economic cooperation between the governments of our countries for 2021-2025.
We are working very closely together when it comes to our joint COVID-19 response efforts, and we are very happy that we have launched the joint production of the Sputnik V vaccine at the Karaganda Pharmaceutical Factory. We are also doing our best to supply additional batches of vaccine to Kazakhstan. I am quite sure that we will jointly be able to cope with the pandemic and we will overcome its economic consequences which are very hard for the entire world and our countries. Apart from our bilateral affairs, we will talk about cooperation within the Eurasian Economic Union. Mr Mamin, we support high-priority guidelines for intensifying Eurasian integration, suggested by our esteemed Kazakhstani friends during your chairmanship. Generally speaking, we have an extensive and detailed agenda. Mr Mamin, I would now like to give the floor over to you.
Askar Mamin: Many thanks. Mr Mishustin, esteemed colleagues, we are extremely happy to be here in Kazan. I would just like to say that, our countries really do have a vast bilateral agenda, together with our cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union.
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Restricted-attendance meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council
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Mikhail Mishustin’s conversation with Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan
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Mikhail Mishustin’s conversation with Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Ulukbek Maripov
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Mikhail Mishustin’s conversation with Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov
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Mikhail Mishustin’s conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan Kohir Rasulzoda
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Mikhail Mishustin meets with Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Roman Golovchenko
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Mikhail Mishustin’s meeting with President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov
As you have so rightly pointed out, we have drafted an entire package of documents that we are due to sign at today’s meeting. These seven documents reflect expanding cooperation between our countries.
I am happy to announce that our trade volumes have now reached pre-pandemic levels. Actually, bilateral trade volumes equal the January-March 2020 levels when we had not yet announced a lockdown, and when we were not facing an emergency situation. In effect, trade and economic cooperation has been reinstated in 2021. I am confident that we will be able to hold onto this trend and expand our trade volumes already this year, and with a new quality.
You have noted several important cooperation aspects, including industrial cooperation, and other new spheres are also emerging, and we will mention them in the documents that we’re signing today. I am quite sure that all this will help expand trade and economic cooperation during the upcoming period of time.
I would just like to say a separate thank you to Rustam Minnikhanov for the reception accorded to us and for this opportunity to hold a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Intergovernmental Council right here in the wonderful city of Kazan.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you, Mr Mamin.
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Documents signed following the meeting:
- The Comprehensive Programme of Economic Cooperation between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2021-2025
- The Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the Kazakhstan Investment Development Fund, and Mubadala Investment Company in the United Arab Emirates on Jointly Financing Projects in Kazakhstan
- The Memorandum of Cooperation between Rosgeologiya, the Astana International Financial Centre, the Tau-Ken Samruk National Ore Mining Company and the Kazgeologiya National Geological Prospecting Company on Establishing the Eurasian Exchange of Junior Companies within the Astana International Financial Centre
- The Memorandum of Cooperation between Rosgeologiya and the Kazgeologiya National Geological Prospecting Company on Studying the Geological Structure of Mineral Deposits as Regards all Types of Minerals
- The Road Map between Tatneft and the KazMunaiGas National Company on Implementing a Project to Produce Butadiene and Its Derivatives in the Republic of Kazakhstan
- The Framework Agreement between Tatneft and the KazMunaiGas National Company on Establishing and Managing a Design Company Based on Butadiene Co. Ltd.
- The Letter of Intent between Tatneft and the KazMunaiGas National Company on Implementing Joint Prospecting Projects and Jointly Developing Hydrocarbon Deposits in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
