Kazakhstan expressed its support to China on the Beijing Olympics and Taiwan issue in a joint communique between the countries issued in Beijing on Saturday.

"Kazakhstan supports China's efforts in the preparations of the Beijing Olympics and will enhance coordination with China on strengthening the Olympic security work to ensure the successful and smooth holding of the Beijing Olympics," said the communique signed by Premier Wen Jiabao and his Kazakh counterpart Karim Masimov.

The communique said both China and Kazakhstan believed the August Games were a grand event of the world people to enhance friendship and strengthen cooperation.

The Kazakh side reiterated its firm adherence to the one-China policy and its opposition to "Taiwan independence" in any form, to any attempt to create "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan", and to Taiwan's entry to any international and regional organization that only sovereign countries can join.

The two sides also pledged to continue cooperation on safeguarding national security and striking out at terrorism, separatism, extremism, transnational crimes and drug trafficking.

According to talks between Wen and Masimov on Wednesday, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will attend the Games opening ceremony.

Masimov is on a four-day visit to China as a guest of Wen. He is now in Sanya in the southern Hainan Province to attend the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), a platform for high-level interaction between leaders from Asia and the world.

(Xinhua News Agency April 13, 2008)