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British Prime Minister David Cameron will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan on June 30 during which ti is planned to discuss the oil and gas sector, official representative of the central communications service under the President of Kazakhstan Altay Abibullayev said at a press briefing on June 17.

"This is the first visit of the British government to our country and in the whole region of Central Asia in the history of the bilateral relations.The visit is being held at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, which was made during a meeting in the framework of London Olympics last year," Abibullayev said.

According to him, Nazarbayev and Cameron will visit Atyrau on June 30. The visit includes meetings with representatives of British oil and gas companies operating in the Caspian shelf. After a brief visit it is planned to go to Astana. On July 1, it is planned to discuss a wide range of issues.

"We will focus on security issues in Central Asia, namely the withdrawal of peacekeeping forces from Afghanistan, the issues of oil and gas and many other issues," Abibullayev said.