ASTANA, Kazakhstan, August 24. Kazakhstan’s
Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev held a series of talks with
business partners from Germany, Trend reports, referring to the press service
of the government of Kazakhstan.

During his working trip, Bozumbayev held meetings with
Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education
and Research Jens Brandenburg, Parliamentary State Secretary of the
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture Claudia Müller, Managing
Director of the German Water Partnership Boris Greifeneder, Head of
the Group for National and International Economic Policy of the
Federal Chancellery Holger Fabig and Scientific Director of the
German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) Susanne Buiter.

The prospect of joint training of professional personnel for the
water management industry was discussed with Jens Brandenburg. The
German side expressed its readiness to find a university to
cooperate with the new Kazakh National University of Water
Management and Irrigation in Kazakhstan’s Taraz city soon.

Bozumbayev also discussed the potential for Kazakh
agro-industrial and organic products to make a splash in the German
market with Claudia Müller.

Germany is one of Kazakhstan’s key agricultural partners. Two
sides have agreed to coordinate the Concept of the Regional Center
for Sustainable Agriculture in Central Asia. The work on creating
this idea is being carried out on the initiative of the President
of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, which was announced during
his official visit to Germany on September 28–29, 2023.