Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received the new Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan Nurlan Nogayev. The President of Kazakhstan stressed the importance of further strengthening the ties of friendship, good-neighborliness and strategic partnership with Turkmenistan. The head of Kazakhstan set a number of tasks for Nurlan Nogayev to develop bilateral cooperation, including in such areas as energy, transit and transport, trade and cultural and humanitarian cooperation. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed that special attention be paid to issues of high-quality content of the substantive part of the upcoming negotiations at the highest level.