Wednesday, March 20 2019 13:56

ArmInfo. Armenia attaches great importance to the development of cooperation with Kazakhstan in all possible directions. The press secretary of the Armenian Foreign  Ministry Anna Naghdalyan stated this on March 20 at a press conference in Yerevan.

"Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan yesterday held a telephone  conversation with former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan  Nazarbayev. Armenia and Kazakhstan have an important and lengthy  agenda.  Armenia attaches great importance to developing cooperation  with Kazakhstan in all possible directions," Naghdalyan said, adding  that Yerevan and Astana are effectively cooperating in both bilateral  and multilateral formats, and work in this direction will continue.

To note, on March 19, President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev,  announced the refusal of the powers of the head of state. "I made a  decision to terminate my powers as president. This year it will be 30  years old, as I occupy the highest post. The people gave me the  opportunity to be the first president of independent Kazakhstan,"  Nazarbayev said, addressing the people of Kazakhstan on the air of  republican TV channels , Interfax reports. The powers of the  President of the Republic are transferred to Speaker of the Senate of  the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev. "Under the law,  in the event of the termination of the powers of the president, his  duties are performed by the speaker of the senate. Then there will be  elections of the president," said Nazarbayev. Nursultan Nazarbayev,  who will turn 79 this year, is the first and only president of  Kazakhstan.

Since 1991, when the republic gained sovereignty, several times won  the presidential elections, the last time (in early elections) - in  April 2015, gaining 97.75% of the vote. The current term of his  presidential term expires in April 2020.

In 2007, the parliament granted him, as the first president, the  right to run for the highest state post an unlimited number of times.  Nursultan Nazarbayev will head the country's security council.