Kazakhstan puts the final touches to SES legal basis, WTO entry
ASTANA. October 23. KAZINFORM 17 agreements making up the basis of the Single Economic Space (SES) entered into effect since 1 January 2012.
Kazakhstan's Minister of Economic Development and Trade Yerbolat Dossayev made it public at the government's session reporting on the results of socioeconomic development of the countries over nine-month period of 2012.
"This year our Government continued to deepen integration processes within the Customs Union and the Single Economic Space. Since 1 January 2012, 17 agreements forming the legal basis of the Single Economic Space became effective. The SES will come into full play gradually," Y. Dossayev said.
Minister Dossayev reminded, Kazakhstan's Senate approved the law "On ratification of the Treaty on free trade zone" in October 2012 in order to form a single legal basis within the CIS and eradicate barriers to mutual trade.
Together with the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization there was developed the Road Map on Kazakhstan' accession to the WTO, according to him. Currently, Kazakhstan has finalized the bilateral negotiations on access to the markets of 29 countries.