Armenia and Kazakhstan to restore air communication

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, ARMENPRESS: The launch of the Astana-Yerevan direct flights is on the agenda of the session of the intergovernmental commission on the Armenian-Kazakh economic cooperation 2014-2015. The approval of the direct flights may foster the increase of the tourist flows. Armenpress reports that the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia Grisha Baghyan stated that the Armenian-Kazakh relations have development prerequisites, especially when Armenia expressed its intention to join the Customs Union. “Being a member of the Customs Union, Kazakhstan has quite a big experience and our commission should implement a corresponding work to study and use that experience”, - said Grisha Baghyan.

During the eight months of the current year the foreign trade turnover between the two countries has increased twice and small and medium enterprises have been established.

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan Marat Talibayev highlighted the Armenian-Kazakh friendship and emphasized the existence of the Armenian community in Kazakhstan and its role in the further development of the bilateral relations.