NATO has agreed with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on the use of the territories of the Central Asian countries for withdrawal of vehicles and military armament from Afghanistan.
This trip is called to stress the traditionally fraternal relations with one of the leading strategic partners and one of the leading allies of Russia in the post-Soviet space: Putin's assistant.
Kazakhstan, Russian and Belarus railroads have signed an agreement on delineation of responsibilities for nonobservance of periods of temporary import of international transportation vehicles.
Vladimir Putin has stated that the EU has to consider the decision of Kazakhstan and Belarus to adopt the conditions of Russia’s entrance into WTO when deciding on these countries’ membership in the organization.
Late May Russia’s Transneft reduced oil supplies to the Pavlodar-based oil refinery twofold. Originally the oil refinery was designed to process only Russia’s oil.
Upon adopting respective amendments, Kazakhstan will be able to supply about 1.5 million tons of oil a year to China-based oil refineries for processing within oil tolling schemes.