The Week in Kazakhstan: Time To Change
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev flew to Italy to meet Italian prime minister Giorga Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella on January 18. In his first visit to Rome, Tokayev said that trade turnover between the two countries amounted to around $15 billion in 2023. This is mostly driven by Kazakhstan’s oil exports (we explained yesterday that this is a misleading calculation based on Kazakhstan’s statistics).