Blinken will also visit Uzbekistan and meet foreign ministers of all five former Soviet republics of Central Asia on his first trip to the region where neighboring China also plays a key role.
"As you know well, the United States strongly supports Kazakhstan's sovereignty, its independence, its territorial integrity," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Stefani Reynolds/ Pool via REUTERS/ File photo
"Sometimes we just say those words and they actually have no meaning. And of course, in this particular time, they have even more resonance than usual," Blinken said, referring to Russia's assault on Ukraine a year ago. "We have built very good and reliable long-term partnerships in so many strategically important areas" with the United States, Tokayev said.
A recent study by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development found a spike in EU and British exports to Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan—part of a customs union with Russia—and suggested that the flow was meant to evade the sweeping Western sanctions on Russia. All five Central Asian nations abstained or did not vote last week on a UN General Assembly resolution that demanded that Moscow pull out of Ukraine.
Tokayev recently spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, although he also visited Putin last year to reaffirm ties.
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