The meeting reviewed the progress of Kazakhstan and Russia Governments’ work on further development of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and defense and armaments.
- We have already discussed the issue of setting up joint ventures in the field of defense industry. To this end, we have established a separate ministry, Nursultan Nazarbayev said.
In turn, the Vice-Premier of the Russian government in detail informed the President of Kazakhstan on the technical aspect of "Baiterek" future project.
- This project is aimed at creating a conceptually new rocket and space technology and modernization of the launch complex. In case of formalizing the arrangements reached by the Heads of the two states with respect to the project it opens a favourable development prospect for the city of Baikonur and the launch complex, Dmitry Rogozin said.
The President has noted the promotion of Kazakh-Russian relations in other sectors of the economy as well.
