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An agreement has been reached during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's recent visit to Ukraine regarding that Kazakh coal mined in the Karaganda and Ekibastuz coal basins being shipped to Ukraine, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported.

“An important outcome of the negotiations was an agreement to ship coal from the Karaganda and Ekibastuz coal basins to meet Ukraine’s demand,” ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Nazarbayev was in Ukraine on Dec. 22, 2014.