During the upcoming visit of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Kazakhstan the sides the parties will conclude a trade and business cooperation agreement and sign a treaty outlining the fundamental principles of the two countries\' cooperation, which were suggested by Kazakhstan.\" Karzai received an official invitation to visit Kazakhstan from the country\'s Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev during a meeting in New York in September 2002, Interfax. reports. The press release by the Industry and Trade Ministry of kazakhstan says that the Kazakh interdepartmental commission in charge of assistance to Afghanistan discussed further aid to the country at its second session on January 31. \"Discussions and work on a mechanism for proving assistance to Afghanistan were continued. In particular, [the commission] discussed ways to organize goods and service deliveries, financial sources and the legal groundwork for economic assistance to Afghanistan,\" the press release reads. The commission, which is led by Industry and Trade Minister Mazhit Yesenbayev, also focused on ways of delivering and storing humanitarian cargoes intended for Afghanistan, in addition to options for introducing the most favorable customs and tax regulations and the possibility of sending Kazakh experts to Afghanistan. According to the press release, in 2002, Kazakhstan provided Afghanistan with 3,000 tonnes of wheat for free and another 85,000 tonnes under the UN World Food Program. (CNA)