We would like to see CIS architecture in Astana: Kazakh President
13:22, 22 May 2009
ASTANA. May 22. KAZINFORM /Aigul Tulekbayeva/ Kazakh President has proposed the CIS builders to take part in the construction of Astana today at the meeting with Heads of Governments of the CIS member states.
N.Nazarbayev noted that within the last 10 years the capital city was built from the green field. In accordance with the last census, the population of the city is over 700 thousand people. The city keeps on the construction. ?You can see Moscow, Chinese, Turkish, Spanish, Italian architecture here. We would like to see here the architecture of the CIS builders. Astana will be quite Eurasian city then?, the Head of the State said.
The President informed that Kazakhstan will start construction of the biggest road ?West Europe ? West China? this year. ?It will pass through Kazakhstan from West China to the borders with Russia, through Kazan, Moscow, to Europe. It is a great construction and we will need help?, he said.