President of Kazakhstan to visit Moscow

Astana believes that in the course of a working visit of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan to Moscow scheduled for May 12-14 four Russian-Kazakh intergovernmental agreements will be signed. The Kazakh foreign ministry informed a RIA Novosti correspondent that the sides are expected to sign the agreements on drawing the middle modified line on the Caspian, on long-term transit of Kazakh oil through the Russian pipelines, as well as on setting up joint ventures in gas industry and on the basis of the Ekibastuz GRES-2 (municipal district power plant). Within the framework of his working visit the president of Kazakhstan will hold talks with Russian leaders and take part in sessions of the EurAsEC Interstate Council and the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty.