President Rouhani and his Kazakh counterpart Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev attended a joint press conference in Saadabad Palace on Monday after the former’s reception of the latter; “I express my gratitude to President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan for visiting Tehran and for his invitation to me to visit Almaty. I welcome him and his delegation in this visit,” said Rouhani as his opening take. “Since the independence of Kazakhstan, Iran had seen improving ties with this Central Asian country with which we have many common cultural and ethnic features.”
“Kazakhstan supported Iran during our nuclear negotiations with world powers; it also hosted two rounds of meetings in Almaty; it participated in JCPOA implementation when it sent 60 tons of yellow cake to Iran,” Rouhani told the press conference.
