Kazakhstan introduced a two-week visa-free regime for Iranian travelers, during an official meeting between the presidents of two countries in Tehran on Sunday.
"There are common views between Tehran and Nur-Sultan on regional and global issues," Ebrahim Raeisi, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said in a joint meeting with his Kazakh counterpart, according to the General Directorate of Public Relations and Information.
"There are many capacities between Iran and Kazakhstan, which will increase and enhance cooperation between the two countries," he said, adding that the signing of memoranda of understanding between the two countries shows the will of these two countries to increase bilateral relations.
"Today, our diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are 30 years old and during this time we had a lot of cooperation in all fields," Kazakhstan’s President Qassem Zhumart Tokayev said, stressing that Kazakhstan and Iran have good relations in all fields, and these relations can be seen in the international and regional spheres.
Speaking during an Iran-Kazakhstan joint business forum in Tehran on the same day, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sultanov said that his country could expand economic relations with Iran so that the volume of bilateral trade reach $3 billion.
He noted that the volume of trace between Iran and Kazakhstan witnessed an 85-percent increase in 2021 to reach $440 million.