Putin, Nazarbayev sign gas development deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed an agreement here Tuesday delimiting the border between the two states and allowing joint development of the Central Asian republic’s second-largest natural gas field.

“We have managed to resolve an essential issue — that of the state border between our two countries,” Putin told reporters following talks at the Kremlin with Nazarbayev.

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