Kazakhstan is ready to welcome new diplomats representing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), the office of Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy prime minister, said after his meeting on Saturday with Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Integration, Serik Zhumangarin.
Zhumangarin said that Kazakhstan has had good relations with Afghanistan throughout its mutual history and that new Afghan diplomats will be welcomed to Kazakhstan in the near future, their mission being to strengthen these relations, Baradar’s office said in a statement posted on its Twitter page.
Earlier, Baradar addressed Zhumangarin with a request to the Kazakh government for accepting new Afghan diplomats.