Kazakh Minister Of Education And Science Visits Turkish State Minister

ANKARA - Kazakh Minister of Education and Science Zhaksybek Kulekeyev visited on Tuesday Turkish State Minister Besir Atalay.
Kulekeyev, who is in Turkish capital Ankara to attend the meeting of Turkish-Kazakh Joint Economic Commission (JEC), paid a courtesy visit to Atalay.
In the meeting, Kulekeyev expressed pleasure to be in Turkey and invited Atalay to Kazakhstan.
Atalay said that he could not visit any Turkish republics in Central Asia due to his busy schedule. But, he noted, he and other Turkish officials should pay such visits.
Turkish-Kazakh JEC convened in Ankara on Monday. In the meeting, Turkish State Minister Mehmet Aydin has said that settlement of a long-term and deeper cooperation between Turkey and Kazakhstan in every field constituted the basis of their policies.
Kulekeyev said in the JEC meeting that commercial and economic relations between Turkey and Kazakhstan would further improve in the future.
(BRC-AÖ) 04.05.2004