The work of the 17th Cross-Border Cooperation Forum has started in Kokshetau, Kazinform correspondent reports.
Participating the forum are President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin.
This year the traditional event is held virtually. The live broadcast is available on Khabar 24 TV Channel.
Kazakhstan looks forward to continuing cooperation with the EBRD in the field of renewable energy sources, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said, Trend reports with reference to the Kazakhstan presidential press service.
Tokayev made the remark during a meeting with President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Odile Renaud-Basso.
During the meeting, the results of the EBRD’s activities in Kazakhstan and priorities for further cooperation were discussed.
The International Digital Almaty forum has kicked off in Almaty Feb. 5. Prime Ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union as well as leading international experts in the digital sphere have shared the results and success achieved in the digitalization sphere.
“The Digital Reset: a Leap to the Next Normal” is a topic for this year.
Kazakhstan will send 5,000 tons of flour to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan each as humanitarian aid amid coronavirus pandemic, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Supervisory activities in the form of visiting dangerous production facilities have been suspended In Kazakhstan for the period of the state of emergency, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development.
The exception is the investigation of an accident, and permit inspection prior to issuing a permit through a visit to the subject at the request of the licensor, and unscheduled inspections on the grounds of Kazakhstan’s Entrepreneurial Code.
New case of coronavirus infection has been detected in Kazakhstan, Trend reports with reference to country’s Ministry of Healthcare.
The coronavirus case was detected in the country’s Almaty city where over ten contaminated sites have been officially confirmed.
The statement made by Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who denies Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, is a wake-up call and a slap in the face to Ukraine. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine - Pavlo Anatoliyovych Klimkin, said on Facebook on December 4, 2019.
The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Kemelyevich Tokayev, said that his country did not call the situation in Crimea annexation by Russia.
In an interview with “Deutsche Welle”, he said that annexation was “a word too hard for the Crimea”.
“What has happened has happened”, Tokaev said.
