Tajik President Emomali Rahmon yesterday met in Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan, with Kazakhstan’s First President Nursultan Nazarbayev. 

According to the Tajik president’s official website, they discussed state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.   

In the course of the talks, Tajik leader reportedly pointed out dynamics of successful development of Tajik-Kazakh relations in all fields and underlined a special role of Nursultan Nazarbayev in that issue.  

Emomali Rahmon also expressed confidence that the two sides would jointly bring the bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan to a new level, the president’s website said.  

Emomali Rahmon arrived in Nur-Sultan yesterday to attend the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) summit as a guest of honor.  

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is an economic union of states located primarily in northern Eurasia.  A treaty aiming for the establishment of the EAEU was signed on May 29, 2014 by the leaders of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, and came into force on January 1, 2015. Treaties aiming for Armenia’s and Kyrgyzstan’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union were signed on October 9 and December 23, 2014, respectively.  Armenia’s accession treaty came into force on January 2, 2015.  Kyrgyzstan’s accession treaty came into effect on August 6, 2015.