We will overcome current difficulties ? N.Nazarbayev

?We built our independent Kazakhstan 10 years ago overcoming extraordinary difficulties; on the ruins of the Soviet Union. We did not have infrastructure, our plants did not work, grocery shelves were empty, our children froze??, the Head of the State said. ?At that time, ten years ago, despite severities, we consolidated, become stronger and reached new qualitative level. Unity of our people helped us. I consider that unity of all 130 peoples and nationalities, that live in our country, is the most valuable resource, owing to which we will overcome the current difficulties?. The President emphasized that for the past ten years the country?s GDP increased tenfold ? from USD 1000 to USD 8.400 per capita, the foreign trade turnover increased tenfold too. The total volume of investments into small entrepreneurship increased by 23 times from 2000 and formed KZT 1.5 trln. Financing healthcare and education increased by 8.5 times.