The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Masimov, and the Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will hold negotiations in Moscow on Wednesday, the agency reports citing the prime minister''s press service.

According to the press service, K. Masimov''s telephone conversation with V. Putin took place on February 28. "The interlocutors discussed the conditions and prospects of further development of bilateral trade and economic cooperation and the questions of formation of the Customs Union of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus."

According to the press service, "during the talk, the officials reached an arrangement on carrying out on March 3, 2010 of the working meeting of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, K. Masimov, with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, V. Putin in Moscow."