The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, who is on an official visit to Astana, noted that the signing of an EU-Kazakhstan partnership agreement will create a new basis for political and economic cooperation between Astana and Amsterdam.
"I believe that the expanded partnership agreement with the European Union will establish an absolutely new qualitative basis for political and economic relations between our countries. Kazakhstan is the first Central Asian country to have signed and developed this agreement with the EU," Rutte said.
Kazakhstan plans to sign the agreement in December, RIA Novosti reports.
