Nazarbayev suggests moving Silk Road project headquarters to Almaty

The Kazakh leader made the idea public at the fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Shanghai. "The idea of Chinese President Xi Jinping on the creation of an infrastructural fund of the Silk Road is of paramount importance. Since Kazakhstan is located in the heart of the Asian continent, we would like to suggest moving the headquarters of the Silk Road project to Almaty. By bridging Asia and Europe, this route will be the largest transport system in the world," Nursultan Nazarbayev said. The Head of State also stressed that the creation of an accessible transport system will play a key role for the agrarian sector as well as for other industries.