MOSCOW (TASS) — Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at the fifth annual session of the Astana Club that he had offered to arrange a meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine, Kazakhstan’s Tengrinews agency reported on Tuesday.

“Zelensky has already agreed to a one-on-one meeting, and I have informed the Russian president about it. We’ll see now. If they need a neutral host, I said it could be Kazakhstan”, Nazarbayev said, as cited by the news agency. “I believe that there is a need for a personal meeting between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine”, Kazakhstan’s former president pointed

On Monday, Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Nursultan Nazarbayev. The parties discussed a number of global issues, including the Ukrainian crisis. In late October, Nazarbayev met with Zelensky in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.