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Italy and Kazakhstan signed a collection of agreements for a worth of € 4 billion throughout a go to by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Astana.
The agreements had been in quite a lot of sectors, together with oil and gasoline, renewable vitality and water administration.
Meloni mentioned he didn’t contemplate his go to “merely a formality, however substantial”.
“Italy was the primary nation of the EU to have determined to put money into relations with central Asia and its particular person Member States, making a secure format for the sharing of concepts,” continued Meloni.
The Italian Prime Minister added that the Summit of Asia-Centro-Centrale held in April had raised relations between the areas.
His Kazakh counterparty Salimm-Jomart Tokayev He mentioned his nation attacked “nice significance to the event of commerce amongst our states”.
“Italy is the third largest business companion of Kazakhstan and the most important throughout the European Union. The quantity of commerce has reached 20 billion {dollars} (€ 17.6 billion)”, noticed Tokayev.
Before heading to Kazakhstan, Meloni visited Uzbekistan for the primary stage of a Central Asia journey that began on Wednesday.
For the event, one of many essential streets of town of Samarcand was given the identify “Via di Roma”, mentioned the president of Uzbek Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
During the assembly between Meloni and Mirziyoyev, a joint declaration was signed which opens the highway to € 3 billion of agreements between the international locations.
