Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Roman Vassilenko held a meeting with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Jovita Neliupšene, El.kz cites MFA.
The parties discussed the state and prospects of development of Kazakh-Lithuanian cooperation in political, trade-economic and humanitarian spheres, as well as priority areas of interaction within the framework of Kazakhstan’s partnership with the European Union.
Lithuania is among the top ten major trading partners of Kazakhstan among the European Union countries. Kazakhstan, in turn, is one of Lithuania’s top twenty trading partners in the world. Thus, at the end of 2022, the volume of trade grew by 28.7% and amounted to $584.3 million. Along with cooperation in energy, industrial and agricultural products, the countries also implement investment projects in transportation and logistics.
The positive dynamics of the Kazakh-Lithuanian dialog was emphasized, which was given an additional impetus by the negotiations of President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Jomart Tokayev with President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda on the margins of the 77th UNGA in New York in September 2022.
In this regard, the interlocutors noted the need for further intensification of business ties between the two countries against the background of the difficult current geopolitical situation. In this context, the parties agreed that this process should be facilitated by the activities of the Kazakh-Lithuanian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation, the next meeting of which is scheduled for the first quarter of 2024 in Vilnius.
At the end of the meeting, the mutual commitment to the course of further strengthening of partnership between Kazakhstan and Lithuania on the basis of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation was confirmed.