Expand / Collapse search
Watch TV
Menu

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2024 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper.

Asia

Kazakhstan leader Tokayev in Moscow for 1st foreign visit

Associated Press
Published | Updated
  • 01ae44a3-
    Image 1 of 2

    Kazakhstan's interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev enters a hall for his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. The trip to Moscow is Tokayev's first foreign visit since taking office last month after the surprise resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had led the country since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

  • 2fe744d8-
    Image 2 of 2

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Kazakhstan's interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. The trip to Moscow is Tokayev's first foreign visit since taking office last month after the surprise resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had led the country since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

MOSCOW – Kazakhstan's interim president is making his first foreign visit since being appointed two weeks ago, meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, formerly the speaker of the upper house of Kazakhstan's parliament, was named the country's leader after the unexpected resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had been in power since the country became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Tokayev is likely to continue Nazarbayev's strategy of maintaining close relations with Russia while still cultivating Western countries.

Tokayev called his nation's ties with Russia "a model relationship" at the meeting Wednesday and says "my task is to make sure this strategy remains in place."