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ALMATY (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama plans to visit Kazakhstan as part of a wider tour of Central Asia, Kazakhstan's upper house of parliament quoted him on Tuesday as saying.

The United States embassy in Kazakhstan did not confirm any visit or comment on possible dates.

The Senate upper house said in a statement that Obama met Kazakhstan's speaker Kasymzhomart Tokayev in Istanbul this week and told him he planned to become the first U.S. president to visit the oil-producing nation. "Barack Obama said he planned a tour of our region and will first of all visit Kazakhstan which is a friend and a reliable partner of the United States," the Senate said in a statement.

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