MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev have held a telephone conversation on Tuesday to discuss the preparations for the next Astana meeting on Syria, the Kremlin press service said in a statement.
Besides, the two presidents "discussed a number of pressing bilateral and global issues, including the upcoming meeting of the Heads of State Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, due in June, and the EXPO-2017," the statement reads.
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