“Kazakhstan and Great Britain are linked by a constructive political dialogue and active contacts at various levels,” Tokayev said, in the Akorda readout, and he called on the young generation to learn languages, English first, as the main language of international communication. Sarwar thanked the president for support of British business projects, called Kazakhstan a strategic partner with which Britain intends to reach practical results, and the two discussed energy, transport and logistics, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, academic exchanges and joint educational initiatives. The number Astana gave is trade up 83% in a year, and the sentence is an invitation to the prime minister.
Sarwar came to Astana from Baku, where Ilham Aliyev received him on Tuesday afternoon, by APA’s official news of 16:26 on 6 October. In Yerevan the forum, titled Building Bridges for Capital, Talent and Innovation and organised by the Oxford Alumni Business Club of Armenia, heard Nikol Pashinyan call it the logical step after the strategic partnership memorandum signed in May, and Ambassador Alexandra Cole welcomed colleagues from UK Export Finance as part of the forum, “a significant opportunity to support credible projects and connect them with British goods, services and expertise”, by Armenpress at 19:39.
The number Astana gave is trade up 83% in a year, and the sentence is an invitation to the prime minister.
Pashinyan told the hall that the government’s Crossroads of Peace project puts a railway between the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea, the North-South road and east-west roads on the table, with oil and gas pipelines and power lines under discussion, and that Armenia and Britain are becoming closer in transport terms. On Tuesday Armenia’s State Revenue Committee, the British ambassador and the World Bank discussed the next phase of tax and customs reforms, by Armenpress at 13:27 on 6 October. Three capitals in two days gave Britain three readouts, and the sums in them are Astana’s alone.
