Kazakh, Russian leaders arrive in Kazakh ex-capital for cooperationt

Kazakh, Russian leaders arrive in Kazakh ex-capital for cooperation talks

ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
19 Jun 04

Almaty, 19 June: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh
counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev have arrived in Almaty on the Russian
presidential aircraft, the Russian president’s press secretary,
Aleksey Gromov, told an ITAR-TASS correspondent.

During the flight the two leaders discussed the results of the summits
of the Eurasian Economic Community Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia and Tajikistan and the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Russia which
were held in Astana yesterday.

At a meeting in Almaty the two presidents will discuss issues relating
to the further development of bilateral cooperation.