sentences:  Adakhan Madumarov, Secretary of State for Kyrgyzstan, led a delegation to Almaty, Kazakhstan where he met with Abdykarimov and discussed cooperation between the countries in gas, banking, and labor migration.Abdykarimov said that the trilateral agreement signed by the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan in July 2001 setting a frontier junction point between the three countries had been ratified by the Kazakh Parliament, but not by the Kyrgyz Parliament.Abdykarimov announced on 14 September 2003 that the Kazakh Parliament considered it a priority to change election laws in Kazakhstan so that regional governors would run for office in elections rather than be appointed.