Monday, 11 March 2024, Erfurt, Free State of Thuringia, Germany: Premier Bodo Ramelow received Dr. Nurlan Onzhanov, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan, for his inaugural visit to the Thuringian State Chancellery. Their conversation was about cooperation in the economic sector, particularly the topics of “green hydrogen” and renewable energies.
Whilst in Erfurt, the Kazakh delegation also met with the Minister of Economic Affairs and Science Wolfgang Tiefensee, whowelcomed 23 Kazakh business and university representatives under the leadership of Kazakhstan’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Construction, Olzhas Saparbekov. The Kazakh delegation’s programme included visits to TITK e.V. in Rudolstadt, the EBZ Erfurt education center and aqua-mol GmbH from Floh-Seligenthal.
Likewise a Business Round Table “Thuringia – Kazakhstan” was held in order to further bilateral projects in the area of business and innovation. Four new cooperation agreements were signed. With the visit, the Kazakh side followed an invitation from Minister Tiefensee and State Secretary Carsten Feller, which they had extended during the Thuringian delegation trip to Kazakhstan in April 2023.
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