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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yermek Kosherbayev, Moscow, October 22, 2025

22 October 2025 12:50
1749-22-10-2025

Mr Minister,

Friends,

We are delighted to welcome you to Moscow, the city where you previously worked as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan. You have greatly contributed to the further development of our allied relations. I would like to once again congratulate you on your appointment. We know that you have a great deal of experience, energy and knowledge, as well as a desire to promote our relations.

We believe that the fact that you are making your first official foreign visit to Russia speaks volumes and highlights the priority importance of privileged Russian-Kazakhstani partnership, alliance and integration ties.

Our peoples are bound by long-standing traditions of friendship, mutual assistance and support. Today we mark 33 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries (October 22, 1992). Since then, we have covered a long path. Our leaders maintain regular contacts, both formal and informal ones. They have held four summit meetings this year. Preparations are underway for a state visit by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the Russian Federation. It is not an exaggeration to say that it will be an event of a truly international scale.

There is hardly any sphere of government and human activities where our countries do not maintain practical mutually beneficial cooperation, including between our foreign ministries. We are implementing an action plan for cooperation between our foreign ministries for 2025−2026. Today, we will discuss all bilateral issues and also our interaction on the international stage.

On October 25, Kazakhstan will mark its national holiday, Republic Day. I hope to have an opportunity to congratulate you on this event today, including in an informal atmosphere.

I am delighted to see you. I hope that our conversation today will make a tangible contribution to preparations for the upcoming state visit by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.