Political consultations were held between Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia
04.03.2025 01:14:22 198Riyadh, February 24, 2025 - The 2nd meeting of the Kazakhstan-Saudi Arabia political consultations was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the co-chairmanship of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Alibek Bakayev and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saud Al-Sati.
During the political consultations, the parties highly appreciated the positive momentum and successful development of Kazakhstan-Saudi Arabia relations based on the principles of friendship and mutually beneficial partnership.
The interlocutors discussed a wide range of issues of political, trade-economic, and cultural-humanitarian cooperation. In addition, special attention was paid to the issues of establishing and expanding cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, transport and logistics, tourism, agriculture and food security, youth and sports.
In order to further strengthen bilateral cooperation, the parties confirmed their intention to continue the practice of exchange of visits, as well as to expand the contractual and legal framework between the two countries.
During the meeting, there was an exchange of views on topical regional and international issues on the agenda, as well as on mutually beneficial partnership within the framework of multilateral structures such as the UN, OIC, OPEC+, etc. The issue of further development of the Dialogue Platform "Central Asia - Gulf Cooperation Council", the first summit of which was held in Jeddah in July 2023, was noted as an important aspect of multilateral cooperation.
Following the results of the meeting, the parties agreed to continue close dialogue between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and noted the need for regular bilateral consultations.
Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mfa/press/news/details/945212