Kyrgyzstan supports all Nazarbayev's Eurasian integration initiatives – PM Babanov
23.02.2012
Yesterday, President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with Kyrgyz Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov.
The two parties debated pressing bilateral cooperation issues and the international agenda, a presidential press statement reports.
"I would like to express gratitude to President Nursultan Nazarbayev for the support for the discussed issues. We reached a series of agreements. In particular, in March we will register and open the Kazakh Investment Fund in Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan will consider the Almaty-Kemin electric line construction. This spring, Kyrgyzstan will start the construction of the Datka-Kemin electrical line. We hail Kazakhstan's participation in the new HPP construction projects. I would like to express gratitude to the president and the government of Kazakhstan for supporting farm exports."
"We favor all the initiatives on part of Nursultan Nazarbayev on the Eurasian integration, and the Single Economic Space. First of all, this concern Central Asian security and raising the competitiveness of our companies. Kyrgyzstan's accession into the Customs Union is a matter of time," Babanov told the briefing, Gazeta.kz said.