Kazakhstan PM's working visit to Russia

This is the first visit of Serik Akhmetov as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan to Russia primeminister.kz reports.

The program of PM’s visit includes meetings with top Russian officials.

During the high level meetings it is scheduled to discuss the issues of development of bilateral relations in trade and economic spheres, as well as expansion of the Kazakh-Russian cooperation in industrial and innovation sectors.

During his visit the Prime Minister is planning to visit “Skolkovo” innovation center, “Navigation Information Systems” JSC and will take part in the presentation of ERA-GLONASS global emergency response system.

According to the developers, ERA-GLONASS system is an initiative to combine mobile communications and satellite positioning to provide rapid assistance to motorists in the event of a collision.

After the presentation, the head of the Kazakh Cabinet said the system could be used in Kazakhstan. "Your experience in this sphere is of particular interest. We will create a working group headed by Transport and Communications Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Zhumagaliyev in order to study this issue and the system itself," S. Akhmetov said during his conversation with the leadership of "NIS GLONASS" company.

WKT citing primeminister.kz