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Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko plans to meet with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev during a visit to Nur-Sultan where he will attend the EAEU summit. The head of state made the statement as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Yermukhamet Yertysbayev.

According to Aleksandr Lukashenko, there will be an opportunity to discuss the prospects of bilateral cooperation. The head of state said that he had visited Kazakhstan many times and knew it very well. "Complicated processes are happening in the political field. Of course, a parliamentary election and a new president have a corresponding impact on life, the society, even the economy,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.

And speaking of the economy, Aleksandr Lukashenko mentioned that Belarus is holding talks on the delivery of oil from Kazakhstan and suggests stepping up these talks:

This year we will mostly complete the modernization of oil processing enterprises. Therefore, it will be easier to purchase oil on global markets. In this regard, we are now holding talks and we would like to step up the talks on the delivery of Kazakhstani oil to Belarus. I think we can solve this issue. It is important for Belarus and Kazakhstan (there are no problems here), and for Russia as far as transit is concerned. Russia is a member of the EAEU. I think we will agree on some oil deliveries from Kazakhstan with a country which is close for us.

Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, in turn, stressed that Kazakhstan is waiting for the official visit of the Belarusian leader in H2 2019. “We want to bolster all our agreements which were made on 29-30 November 2017 during the official visit of Nursultan Nazarbayev to Belarus, advance our bilateral relations to a brand-new level,” he said.