Customs Union - one of key factors for attracting investments to Kazakhstan - A. Issekeshev
17:10, 28 April 2010
ASTANA. April 28. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ The establishment of the Customs Union is one of the key factors for attraction of foreign investments to Kazakhstan, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and New Technologies Asset Issekeshev considers.
"The country that will attract the biggest volume of direct foreign investments and so-called 'smart' investments will benefit much in the post-crisis development", the Minister said during an online conference.
"Thus the new system (Customs Union) should attract more investors to Kazakhstan", he noted. According to him, a number of agreements to the total amount of USD 30 billion was reached during the Kazakh President's visits to France, Italy, China and South Korea.