NUR-SULTAN. Feb 17 (Interfax) - The Kazakh Senate adopted a bill ratifying a Kazakh-Russian military cooperation agreement at a plenary meeting on Thursday, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The ten-year agreement was signed in Nur-Sultan on October 16, 2020, "to update the development of bilateral military cooperation," as the previous agreement [signed by Kazakhstan and Russia on March 28, 1994] had been fulfilled and had grown obsolete.
The agreement pledges bilateral military cooperation, such as the joint engagement planning to ensure security at the request of either side, the joint countering of regional security threats and challenges, current and combat training, military education and science, peacekeeping, routine operations and comprehensive support to forces, etc.
There is a separate clause regarding cooperation in military intelligence and a pledge not to spy on each other.
The agreement says that the sides will not allow a third party to use their territories for actions targeting either of them. Whenever there is a threat to the security, independence or territorial integrity of either Russia or Kazakhstan, the sides will provide mutual assistance, including military support.
There will also be staff talks and consultations, exercises, conferences, seminars, and training of military personnel.
Russia ratified the agreement in May 2021.