"Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan relations are strategic by their nature and expressed satisfaction with successful development of cooperation in all spheres," said Alikhan Smailov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan while he was received by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Ednews reports.
The Prime Minister noted that interaction between the countries based strategic partnership is an indicator of bilateral relations.
Alikhan Smailov expressed gratitude to the Azerbaijani President for his contribution to cementing bilateral cooperation in a variety of fields. He noted that Azerbaijan is the most important economic and trade partner for Kazakhstan in the South Caucasus, saying the trade turnover climbed by 40% to exceed USD 460 mln last year.
The Prime Minister said the trend was kept this year too, and underlined that there are opportunities for increasing this potential even more.