President on Eurasian integration

"Integration allows states with a small potential to adapt to the globalisation." Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan, has expressed this opinion during and international scientific conference "Eurasianism: from the idea to practice" today, on 2 April.

"One should not see only good in the globalisation, but it does not mean that we should be closed to it," - the president of RK has stressed. According to N. Nazarbayev, "the globalisation brings both good and certain problems to the population of any country opening its borders." According to the head of Kazakhstan, "the stronger the integration processes are in the former USSR, the easier the former republics will endure the consequences of the world globalisation."

"The experience of integration in Europe shows, - N. Nazarbayev has said, - that today small countries that are inferior to Kazakhstan in their potential, adapt themselves to the globalisation with lesser pains due to their entrance in the European Union."

According to the head of RK, "the creation of Common Economic Space will allow Kazakhstan and other republics making part of it to soften consequences of the globalisation."

"The human potential of four former Union republics, numbering 230 million people, their economic opportunities, combined together, will allow us to create a powerful union, with which the same European Union will want to deal and have to take into consideration," - N. Nazarbayev has concluded.