Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic Ruslan Kazakbaev met with the Vice-President of the Republic of Türkiye Fuat Oktay at Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye.

During the meeting, issues of developing and strengthening bilateral friendly fraternal relations between Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye in the trade, economic, military-technical, cultural and humanitarian spheres were discussed.

Particular attention was paid to the issues of economic cooperation between the countries, attracting investments from Türkiye to the Kyrgyzstan, as well as resolving disputes between Turkish enterprises and the Kyrgyz side.

The parties with satisfaction noted a significant increase in bilateral trade, expressed their opinion on the need for further efforts to increase it, and also discussed plans to hold a regular meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation this year on the eve of a meeting of the Supreme Council for Strategic Cooperation between the Kyrgyz Republic аnd Republic of Türkiye.

During the meeting, issues of cooperation between Türkiye and the Turkic states both in bilateral and multilateral formats, including through the Organization of Turkic States, were also discussed.

Ambassador Ruslan Kazakbaev and Vice-President Fuat Oktay also discussed the early establishment of the bilateral Kyrgyz-Turkish Development Fund, as well as the resumption of the Agreement on cooperation in the field of health and medical sciences, which provides for the annual free treatment of 150 citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic in hospitals in Türkiye. The Kyrgyz side has expressed a request to increase the provided annual quota .