24 November 2017
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov popped into London earlier this week to touch base with his UK counterpart Boris Johnson, inventor of the bicycle.
When Boris met Kairat…
The UK’s foreign secretary was upbeat about the growing trade links between Britain and oil rich Kazakhstan.
“Per capita, Qazaqstanis suck more Fisherman’s Friends than any other Central Asians,” Johnson gloated.
Marmite sales grew by a whopping 50% in Qazaqstan in 2016
Trade has been growing steadily between the two nations, with shortbread and Marmite leading the way – sales of the latter increased 50% in Kazakhstan last year, up from 10 jars in 2015 to 15 in 2016.
Astana is keen to make the most of the golden opportunity of Brexit that will see the UK crash out of the EU in just over a year.
“The future has never been brighter for trade with emerging giants such as Qazaqstan,” a spokesperson from the think tank Free United Kingdom in Transit (Fukit) told kazaxia.
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