Kazakhstan

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are planning to create a joint venture in the railway sector.

As Trend reports, the presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev expressed their support for the initiative to create this joint venture.

It is assumed that the management of the enterprise will be carried out jointly by the railway administrations of the two countries.

Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili hopes that oil transportation through the Baku-Supsa pipeline will resume in 2024 after regular pumping was suspended in spring 2022, Trend reports referring to Georgian media.

Turkmenistan might export a large volume of energy resources to Azerbaijan, Türkiye, and Kazakhstan, Chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at the 15th meeting of the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Ashgabat, Trend reports.

The suspension of supplies of Russian oil to the Lukoil refinery in Burgas from March 2024 does not mean the company's losing the opportunity to supply this refinery with raw materials, a source familiar with the matter told Trend.

Azerbaijani and Kazakh Energy Ministers have discussed green energy cooperation opportunities, Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov wrote on X, Trend reports.

Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Alim Bayel has congratulated Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev on the country's chairmanship of this year's 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), Trend reports, referring to Kazakhstan's embassy in Azerbaijan.

Prospects of „green“ hydrogen production in the countries of Central Asia and the Caspian region will be discussed in Kazakhstan's Astana on September 17, Trend reports via „Globuc International Company“.

The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan stated that Astana and Baku are considering the possibility of launching oil transportation through the „Baku-Supsa“ pipeline. They noted that the parties are currently discussing this issue.

Kazakh Energy Minister Almassadam Satkaliev said that Kadakhstan and Azerbaijan are planning to launch oil transportation via the „Baku-Supsa“ pipeline. The route to the Georgian port of Supsa has a capacity of 5 million tons per year.

Value-added tax (VAT) won't increase in Kazakhstan by order of the head of state, said the country's Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov at the first meeting of the renewed government, Trend reports.

The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or Middle Corridor) is a green route, Kazakh National Economy Minister Alibek Kuantyrov said during the panel session "A New Dawn for Eurasia" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trend reports.