Cooperation will involve the coordination of intelligence activities, staff training, and exchanges of information, Turan reported on 7 June. Meanwhile, a delegation from Tur-key's National Intelligence Organization held talks with officials of Georgia's Security Ministry on 7 June, according to an Iprinda report monitored by the BBC on the same day. Also, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Sefer Abiev and Turkish Chief of Staff Hakki Karadayi signed a military agreement on technical, scientific, and educational cooperation in Ankara on 10 June, Turkish media reported. A second failure to pass the bill, which was already rejected on 23 May, would constitutionally require President Nursultan Nazar-bayev to either dissolve parliament or dismiss the government. The amendment would raise by three years the age of retirement in Kazakhstan, from 60 to 63 for men and 55 to 58 for women.
Lawmakers apparently fear a loss of public support if they vote in favor of the bill.
The Kazakhstani Foreign Ministry on 10 June expressed its concern over a Chinese nuclear test conducted on 8 June at the Lop Nor testing area, Reuters reported. China announced it will conduct one more test in September. Ghali noted the situation had deteriorated and is now at its worst stage since the civil war in 1992. The opposition denies responsibility. Meanwhile, the new UN special envoy to Tajikistan, Gerd Merrem, announced that talks between the two sides could resume in July.