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Prominent Russian politician Igor Shuvalov talked about benefits of the Eurasian Economic Union in Kazakhstan's Astana.

The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin has signed the Treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday arrived in the Kazakh capital where he was set to sign a deal with his Kazakh and Belarussian counterparts creating a new economic union championed by Moscow.

According to him, our nation is a land-locked one; the member states will provide us with boss an access to seas and their respective transport infrastructure.

Kazakhstan has excluded common citizenship, common foreign policy and common border security from the Treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union.

Deputy Justice Minister of Kazakhstan Elvira Asimova said that there would be no common currency in the Eurasian Economic Union.

Nursultan Nazarbayev appealed to Russian and Belarusian counterparts to take preparation of the Eurasian Economic Union agreement seriously and not to make hasty decisions.

Cooperation in agriculture would boost export of the goods without creating any unwanted competition between our countries: Nazarbayev

President of Kazakhstan Nazarbayev suggested constructing a Minsk-Moscow-Astana-Almaty railway line,

Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev has given a speech at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in which he stated that rebirth of the Soviet Union was impossible.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev will visit Russia on Vladimir Putin's invitation on March 10-11.

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called to remove all the politics aspects from the Eurasian Economic Union agreements.

Russian Prime-Minister Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Astana for the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Council.

According to him, the Eurasian Union is exclusively about economic integration.

According to President Nazarbayev, “local integration serves the interests of people (…) to ensure effective development, any nation needs developing neighbors among other things”.

The agreement on transformation of EurAsEC was not signed at the summit in Moscow, because Kazakhstan objected to creation of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Heads of member-countries of the Interstate Council of EurAsEC are meeting today, March 19, in Moscow.

Presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan Dmitry Medvedev and Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed bilateral relations over the phone.

U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan Kenneth J. Fairfax spoke about the Eurasian Economic Union and democracy in Kazakhstan.

Member-countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization can enter the Eurasian Union, but there will be no merger of the two organizations.
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