14 March 2012
Kazakh delegation headed by Chairman of the Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Ikram Adyrbekov met with OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Emeritus Joao Soares and Portuguese MPs in Lisbon on Monday.
The issues of intensification of Kazakh-Portuguese interparliamentary cooperation and economic ties were discussed.
The Portuguese parliamentarians were proposed to form a parliamentary friendship group. Joao Soares emphasized the important role of Kazakhstan and timeliness of Astana's international initiatives.
The Kazakh side told about the main provisions of the Kazakh President's state-of-the-nation address and presented the Portuguese-language text of the document to the foreign colleagues.
