CIS economic integration to implicitly help Kazakhstan rank among developed states of Europe, Shukeyev
16:16, 23 September 2011
MATY. September 23. KAZINFORM /Berik Bekmurzayev/ "Meetings of the Economic Council always open up an opportunity to discuss and settle urgent issues of multilateral cooperation," 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, member of the CIS Economic Council Umirzak Shukeyev said today the 51st meeting of the Economic Council.
"Kazakhstan persistently follows the path of market economy based on private partnership and free competition. We could state today that consistent reforms by President Nursultan Nazarbayev yield good results; we have regained the pre-crisis development rates. The country's GDP for the first six months grew to stand at 10 trillion tenge that is 7% more against the pervious period of 2010," Shukeyev said.