Kazakhstan President: 2015 will go down in history as the beginning of the new stage of the Eurasian integration
MOSCOW. KAZINFORM - 2015 will go down in history as the beginning of a new stage of the Eurasian integration, this has been announced today by President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the press conference after the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
"For the first time in history an economic union with a powerful and natural resource potential has formed in the vast expanse of Eurasia. We have joined our economic potential to be ready for hard work and new challenges of the XXI century," said the President of Kazakhstan. The President noted that, through the Integration process the parties will strengthen friendship, good-neighborliness and trust, as well as the principles of sovereignty. Head of State stressed the tremendous work done by the member states and the significant contribution to the integration made by the expert community, politicians, parliamentarians, business and public representatives of the participating countries. According to the words of the President, "we must do everything so that our integration has become an attractive model of economic partnership to other states. Our economic union is also open to mutually beneficial cooperation with all the integration associations around the world, including the EU". In the conclusion of his speech, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan congratulated the citizens of the member countries on the establishment of the EEU. "I heartily congratulate the citizens of Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan, on the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union," he said.