ASTANA, November 11 - Kazakhstan`s state-owned KazMunaiGaz and Russia`s gas giant Gazprom signed two agreements on the transit of Central Asian and Russian gas through Kazakhstan. The five-year accords were signed in Astana on Friday by KazMunaiGaz president Uzakbai Karabalin and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, according to PRIME-TASS. One contract is for the transit of gas produced in Central Asia, i.e. in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. A separate contract was drawn to cover the transit of Russian gas, Daniyar Berlibayev, director general of KazMunaiGaz`s affiliate Intergaz Central Asia told a news conference after the signing ceremony. The first document envisions an increase in Central Asian gas transit through Kazakhstan to 55 billion cubic meters a year. The second contract stipulates an annual transit of 70 billion cubic meters of Russian gas through northern regions of Kazakhstan. As of now, the volume of Russian gas transportation is 47 to 50 billion cubic meters a year, Berlibayev said. "Our relations have been developing very dynamically recently," Gazprom`s chief Alexei Miller noted. The volume of gas transportation through Kazakhstan was steadily increasing, so a decision was made to sign medium-term agreements, he added. Meanwhile, the parties to the contract did not announce the gas transit tariffs. "It`s a matter of commercial transaction between two enterprises; we can only say that they are no worse than the previous ones. They satisfy us," KazMunaiGaz president Uzakbai Karabalin said. The Central Asia-Center gas pipeline runs through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and services Turkmen gas supplies to Ukraine and Russia. Earlier, the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan announced plans to boost annual gas transportation volumes through this pipeline to 75 to 90 billion cubic meters by 2010. In 2005, the volume of gas transportation through all trunk pipelines, including the Central Asia - Center pipeline is estimated at 116.7 billion cubic meters. The capacity of Kazakhstan’s gas pipelines is more than 50 billion cubic meters. The Central Asia - Center pipeline pumps 42 billion cubic meters of gas a year.