ASTANA. February 11. KAZINFORM /Serik Sabekov/ OSCE Chairman-in-office, Kazakh Secretary of State - Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev has met with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu today in Astana.

The sides discussed the issues of cooperation between Astana and Ankara in bilateral and multilateral formats. In particular, the state and prospects of development of the Kazakh-Turkish relations in the political and economic spheres, interaction within the OSCE, CICA, Cooperation Council of the Turkic States, Organization of the Islamic Conference and UN were discussed.

K.Saudabayev noted that this meeting witnessed the peculiarity of the relations between two countries. His Turkish colleague said that Turkey was ready to continue cooperation with Kazakhstan.

Memo on intentions between the Kazakh Emergency Ministry and the General Directorate of Emergency Management of Turkey, memo on mutual understanding and cooperation in statistics between the Kazakh Agency for Statistics and the Turkish Statistical Institute were signed upon the results of the meeting.