Kazakhstan also maintains good relations with the United States . The country is the U.S. 's 78th-largest trading partner , incurring $ 2.5 billion in two-way trade , and it was the first country to recognize Kazakhstan after independence . In 1994 and 1995 , the U.S. worked with Kazakhstan to remove all nuclear warheads after the latter renounced its nuclear program and closed the Semipalatinsk Test Sites ; the last nuclear sites and tunnels were closed by 1995 . In 2010 , U.S. President Barack Obama met with Nazarbayev at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington , D.C. and discussed intensifying their strategic relationship and bilateral cooperation to increase nuclear safety , regional stability , and economic prosperity
Nuclear Security Summit
2010 Nuclear Security Summit
History of Kazakhstan