CA-NEWS (KZ) - Questions of bilateral cooperation will be discussed in the course of the regular round of consultations between foreign ministries of Kazakhstan and South Korea to be held in Astana on March 16, official representative of Kazakh MFA Askar Abdrakhmanov reported.

Regular session of Kazakh-Korean Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, and Technological Cooperation will also be held on the same day. In the course of the event sides will discuss mechanisms of realization of the rich potential of bilateral relations, MFA representative stated.

Astana and Seoul plan to sign an agreement on supply of 600 thousand tons of Kazakh grains to South Korea in the course of the forthcoming visit of President Nursultan Nazarbaev to this country, First Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Umirzak Shukeev reported last week.