The next Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan is to be held in 2023 in Kostanay. The press service of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev informed about it on Thursday following the results of his meeting with Akim (head of administration) of Kostanay region Kumar Aksakalov.
"Akim Kumar Aksakalov reported on the commenced work on preparation for the ХІХ Forum of Regions of Kazakhstan and Russia, which will be held in Kostanay in 2023," the text reads.
Since 2003, the Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia was alternately held in Russian and Kazakh cities: Chelyabinsk, Uralsk, Novosibirsk, Aktobe, Orenburg, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Astrakhan, Pavlodar, Yekaterinburg, Atyrau, Sochi, Astana, Petropavlovsk and Omsk. This tradition appeared after meeting of the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Omsk in 2003.
The previous forum was held on November 28, 2022, in Orenburg.
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Based on materials from TASS