 Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are the co-chairs the Strategic Partnership Dialogue.Ambassador Kairat Umarov provided an update to the SPD in a March 24, 2014 opinion piece in The Astana Times titled "Kazakhstan-U.S. Strategic Partnership on the Rise".The third Strategic Partnership Dialogue (SPD) took place on December 10, 2014 in Washington DC.