Tehran, YJC. Sayyari is on an official visit to Kazakhstan for talks with the Central Asian country’s military officials.
Heading a high-ranking delegation, Iranian Navy Commander
Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari arrived in Astana on Sunday evening.
He made the trip at the invitation of his Kazakh
counterpart, General Zhandarbek Zhanzakov.
In addition to meetings with Zhanzakov, the Navy commander is
also going to hold talks with Kazakhstan’s Defense Minister Imangali
Tasmagambetov while in Kazakhstan.
Rear Admiral Sayyari is also slated to give a speech to
Kazakhstan’s National Defense University, visit shipbuilding plants in the city
of Uralsk, and also to travel to the city of Aktau, a seaport on the Caspian
Sea.
Back in October 2013, General Zhanzakov paid an official
visit to Tehran to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defense
cooperation.
He also visited the key naval academy of Iranian Army's
Navy, Imam Khomeini University for Naval Sciences in Northern city of Noshahr.