Peskov was asked about Tokayev’s call for an immediate halt to hostilities in Ukraine and a return to talks, Interfax reported at 13:18 Moscow time. “We value our relations with Kazakhstan, bilateral relations. These are relations of strategic partnership, aimed at the future and covering a very wide range of areas,” he said, and each time the presidents meet Putin briefs his Kazakh partner on the state of the special military operation. Russia “very highly values and is grateful to the president of Kazakhstan for the assessment he gave President Putin”, Peskov added, in TASS’s account carried by Lenta at 13:02.
The assessment was Tuesday’s, at the press conference with Friedrich Merz. Tokayev called Putin an outstanding statesman whom he knows well, said Kazakhstan insists on the territorial integrity of every state and spoke of freezing hostilities so that negotiations can begin, Kazinform reported at 22:27 Astana time. Merz, beside him, had just said Russia was not interested in serious negotiations.
The programme Kazinform printed at 14:45 has meetings with the leadership of Bavaria’s government and Landtag and with business, and the opening of the Kazakh-Bavarian technology forum.
One Berlin document has a text. RWS KZ and its plant RWS Prommashkomplekt signed a letter of intent with Deutsche Bahn on the supply of railway wheels, Kazinform reported at 10:21. The holding casts 300,000 solid-rolled wheels a year, forges more than 160,000 bandage products and assembles 20,000 wheelsets and 42,000 axles, and entry to Deutsche Bahn’s supply needs a production audit and qualification and service tests of the BA 318 and BA 319 wheels under the company’s rules and European standards, general director Sergey Pavlinger said.
A steel plant of 1 million tonnes a year at Ekibastuz is planned from 2029. Trend headlined the same document an agreement. Kazinform’s text calls it a letter of intent, and no sum is printed.
Munich is the visit’s second day. The programme Kazinform printed at 14:45 has meetings with the leadership of Bavaria’s government and Landtag and with business, and the opening of the Kazakh-Bavarian technology forum. No name from the Bavarian side and no document were in the programme by 15:35 Astana time, when NewTimes carried Akorda’s text.
In Astana the Kurultai ratified the Budapest convention on cybercrime at 11:21 and adopted in two readings the CIS protocol on electronic exchange in the interstate search of persons and the agreement with Qatar on cooperation against crime, with no vote counts printed, Kazinform reported.