Astana. October 9. Kazakhstan Today - Italy hopes that the situation around Kashagan will be resolved by a friendly agreement. The Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi said on Monday at the press conference following the results of the negotiations with the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the agency reports. "We would like to continue fruitful cooperation we have had up to these days and hope that the existing problems will be overcome in the spirit of friendship and cooperation," R. Prodi said, answering the journalists' questions. Thus, he noted that " conditions set to the operator, are reprimand of the operational character that could be resolved through negotiations that will allow to continue the work." "The government of Italy, ENI are ready to consider these conditions and to continue very long and fruitful cooperation with Kazakhstan," the Prime Minister of Italy concluded.