In separate messages on Saturday to the first and long-time President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and the incumbent president of the country Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi congratulated the 30th anniversary of the establishment of relations between Iran and Kazakhstan.

President Raisi noted that Iran-Kazakhstan relations have always been based on friendship, good neighborliness and mutual respect.

Iran has had a special look at Kazakhstan Republic so that it was one of the first countries that recognized Kazakhstan�s independence and has ever since stood by the country�s government and nations, Raisi said.

The Iranian president said that Iran has always deemed Kazakhstan as a reliable partner in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea over the past 30 years.

 

By IRNA