Putin, Nazarbaev To Attend Russian-Kazakh Border Forum
October 03, 2006
Putin (left) and Nazarbaev in Astana in January (ITAR-TASS)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is also due to attend.
The Russian president is traveling with a large delegation that includes many cabinet members and security officials.
Putin and Nazarbaev are due to sign today a number of economic agreements, including one under which the output of Kazakhstan's Karachaganak natural-gas deposit would be processed in Russia's Orenburg Oblast.
In a statement released on October 2, Kazakhstan's Naghiz Ak Zhol opposition party voiced its opposition to the proposed deal, saying the gas produced in Karachaganak should be refined in Kazakhstan.
(ITAR-TASS, Interfax-Kazakhstan)