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Medvedev heads to Kazakhstan to talk energy

By SRI ⋅ May 22, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Dmitry Medvedev will look to cement Russia’s close relationship with Kazakhstan during his first trip abroad as President, which starts on Thursday. Energy is expected to dominate talks between Medvedev and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Last year, trade turn-over between the two countries reached $US 16.5 BLN - that’s 20 percent of all Russian trade with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Ivan Safranchuk, from the World Security Institute believes that “relations with Europe will be in any way downsized or harmed”. “However, future development will be in the Asian direction,” he says.

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(Russia Today)

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