Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Pengumuman dibuat dalam satu kenyataan bersama selepas pertemuan antara Presiden Xi Jinping dan Presiden Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

Presiden Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev menyatakan kesediaan negaranya untuk meningkatkan interaksi dan kerjasama dengan Malaysia semasa lawatan rasmi Perdana Menteri ke ibu negara Astana.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is on an official visit to Kazakhstan aimed at further strengthening ties and cooperation between both countries.

Malaysia dan Kazakhstan sepakat untuk terus memperkukuhkan hubungan yang terjalin sejak 16 Mac 1992, serta meneroka peluang kerjasama baharu.

Nursultan Nazarbayev has undergone a successful heart surgery and his life is not in danger, his spokesman Aidos Ukibay said.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who won the recent snap presidential election took the oath as President of Kazakhstan on Saturday.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev secured a second term in Sunday's snap election, winning 81.31% of the vote.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who called the violence a coup attempt, is set to nominate a new prime minister in an address to parliament later in the day.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued shoot-to-kill orders to end unrest he has blamed on bandits and terrorists.

Dozens of people have died and thousands have been detained in Kazakhstan over the past week during the worst violence seen.

Karim Massimov, who was fired this week as protests raged across the Central Asian country, was detained along with several other officials.

Authorities said at least 18 members of the security forces had died, including two found decapitated.

A Russia-led security alliance of ex-Soviet states will send peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan.

The protests began in the oil-producing western province of Mangistau on Sunday following the lifting of price caps on liquefied petroleum gas.

Bekas Presiden Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev disahkan positif COVID-19.