The neighboring China and Kazakhstan vowed to further their cooperation in cracking down on such border crimes as drug smuggling, money-laundering and transnational organized crimes, according to a document issued Wednesday.

The document "China-Kazakhstan Cooperation Strategy for the 21st Century" was signed by Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev after their talks.

The 13-page Chinese version document covers a wide range of such cooperative fields on politics, economy, international cooperation, security, culture. Besides the document, China and Kazakhstan also inked 12 agreements and protocols on energy, finance and economy.

"The two sides will continue to carry out cooperation between law-enforcement departments of the two countries to fight against drug smuggling, weaponry and explosives trafficking, money-laundering and transnational organized crimes," the document says.

"The two sides will take measures to crack down on illegal immigration and perfect the legal basis in this regard," the document says.

According to the document, the two countries also vowed to fight against cross-border crimes, terrorism, separatism and extremism, stressing their security cooperation will not target a third party,

"To safeguard security when contingencies occur, the two governments

are required to enhance constructive dialogue on disaster prevention and relief and hold joint disaster-relief exercise aimed to dispel environmental threats within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)," the document says.

China and Kazakhstan are members of the SCO, a regional organization which also groups Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The two neighboring countries also tackled their concerns over preventing pollution of transboundary rivers in the document, saying they will ensure reasonable use and protection of water and biological resources in the rivers."

It is Nazarbayev's first state visit to China since he won a re-election last December. During Nazarbayev's five-day China visit, Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao will also hold talks or meet with him respectively.

Source: Xinhua