Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with Afghan President Mohammad Ghani, who is on an official visit to Astana.
The two leaders discussed issues of trade-economic, transit and transport, agricultural, cultural and humanitarian cooperation. The most relevant aspects of the international agenda and regional security were also discussed.
"Our country needs a prosperous Afghanistan, with which we want to establish close relations," Interfax cited the President of Kazakhstan as saying.