Wednesday, 8 December 2021, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: Premier Dr. Reiner Haseloff welcomed the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Dauren Karipov, on his inaugural visit to the State Chancellery. Both interlocutors exchanged views on current topics and talked about business, culture and science.
Last year, companies from Saxony-Anhalt exported goods worth around 20.3 million euros to Kazakhstan. Conversely, goods worth 27.7 million euros were imported from Kazakhstan to Saxony-Anhalt in 2020.
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences maintain diverse bilateral relations with partner institutions in Kazakhstan. Partnerships exist, for example, in the fields of electrical engineering, industrial engineering, agriculture and ecotrophology, as well as on topics such as the use of agricultural resources and climate adaptation.
In 2019, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg established a contact office in Almaty, Kazakhstan, as the university’s first office abroad, which forms the starting point for the university’s activities in Central Asia.
For further information
Government of Saxe-Anhalt: https://europa.sachsen-anhalt.de/internationales/aktuelles-international/antrittsbesuch-des-botschafters-von-kasachstan/
Embassy of Kazakhstan in Germany: https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mfa-berlin/press/news/details/298489?lang=de&fbclid=IwAR3m9ho-3MhI-nfvim9fth0zU2soNML4cu5UiZHWdirgf6bZLGFuHS-oMew
