Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki met with Kazakh President Nazarbaev in Astana on December 14 to discuss bilateral relations and economic cooperation. Mottaki said that Iran and Kazakhstan plan to build an oil refinery in northern Iran. Kazakh Transportation and Communications Minister Serik Akhmetov said that Iran may build a petrochemical plant in Kazakhstan\'s Atyrau province. Meanwhile, Kazakhstan\'s Transportation and Communications Ministry announced that Kazakhstan may export up to 1 million tons of wheat annually to Iran. According to Akhmetov, bilateral trade volume should reach $1.8 billion in 2006, and possibly $2.5 billion in 2007. (Interfax-Kazakhstan)