Chairman of the Mazhilis (lower house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin.

HÀ NỘI — Chairman of the Mazhilis (lower house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin began an official visit to Việt Nam on Wednesday.

The visit until Friday is made at the invitation of Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân.

His entourage include Kazakh Ambassador to Việt Nam Yerlan Baizhanov; Chairman of the Mazhilis’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Mukhtar Yerman, who is also head of the Kazakh parliamentarians’ group for cooperation with the Vietnamese NA; Secretary of the Mazhilis’s Committee on Agricultural Issues Zheksenbay Duisebayev; and Secretary of the Mazhilis’s Committee on Finance and Budget Tatiana Yakovleva, who is also member of the Kazakh parliamentarians’ group for co-operation with the Vietnamese NA.

Việt Nam and Kazakhstan established diplomatic relations in 1992. Việt Nam is now an important trading partner of Kazakhstan in Southeast Asia. Bilateral trade has been on the rise since the free trade agreement between Việt Nam and the Eurasian Economic Union, of which Kazakhstan is a member, took effect in 2016. —VNS