AKIPRESS.COM - Belarus and Kazakhstan will soon put together a program to guide the bilateral trade and economic cooperation for a decade. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev reached the relevant agreement during the meeting in Astana on 30 May, according to Belarus Ambassador to Kazakhstan Anatoly Nichkasov.

According to Nichkasov, the two leaders summed up the period that characterizes the economy of the Belarus-Kazakhstan relations as “an economy that needs rebooting.” Both put forward the idea that a new program document is needed. The document will outline new major Belarus-Kazakhstan projects.

The Ambassador added that proposals of the Belarusian and Kazakh sides will be discussed and the draft relevant program will be reviewed during the session of the intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation in Gomel in June. During the event, a draft program on forming Belarus-Kazakhstan economic relations for the next ten years will be discussed. The commission is supposed to give the first reading to the document. The bilateral cooperation program is likely to be signed during the official visit of the Kazakh President to Belarus.

The Belarusian and Kazakh sides also worked out draft interstate agreements on peaceful uses of outer space and on further development of telecommunication infrastructure.

“It is a matter for new serious platforms for forming Belarus-Kazakhstan economic relations. We expect these agreements to be signed this year in the presence of our presidents. Then we will get down to implementing specific projects,” said Nichkasov.