Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan to sign maritime transport deal
ASTANA – Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are expected to sign a maritime transport agreement at a summit of the heads of Caspian states on Nov. 18 in Baku, Kazakh Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Tuesday following the seventh session of an intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation held in Astana.
Mynbayev is the co-chair of the commission.
"We reached an agreement on maritime transport," he said. "The draft agreement is currently with the Kazakh Foreign Ministry and we hope that it will be signed at the upcoming summit."
"We also discussed the opening of a branch of an Azerbaijani bank in Aktau," he said. "However, this requires the consent of the Kazakh Financial Supervision Agency."
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