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PUTIN MEETS EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY COUNTERPARTS IN SOCHI
Channel One Worldwide (for Europe), Moscow
15 Aug 06
[Presenter] A summit of the Eurasian Economic Community, EAEC, is
opening in Sochi right now. [passage omitted] Our correspondent Pavel
Pchelkin is speaking with us live from Sochi.
[Correspondent] Hello. You can see that it is already late evening
here. It is not by accident that the opening of the summit was
scheduled for the evening. It has long been very hot in Sochi, more
than 30 degrees centigrade and absolute humidity. It was decided
that the meeting should open after the temperature had subsided. The
meeting is informal. The leaders came to visit Vladimir Putin in
order to discuss without rush ways of speeding up integration with
the EAEC. It will be unusually long for such summits and will last
three days. [passage omitted]
Before the start of the summit, Vladimir Putin met Nursultan
Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan. This country, like Russia,
is in fact the driving force of post-Soviet integration processes.
Our economies are developing energetically and this is pushing them
towards acting in concert, opening up commodity, service and capital
flows. [passage omitted]
[Putin] Relations between Russia and Kazakhstan are developing rather
effectively, including in the humanitarian sphere and in the economy.
They have remained very good on the political level. Our foreign
ministries are cooperating nonstop, agreeing their positions on
the main international problems. And I do expect that Kazakhstan
will play a part in the international arena. I am referring to the
possibility of Kazakhstan taking over the OSCE presidency. We will
provide comprehensive support for the candidacy of Kazakhstan.
[Nazarbayev, in Russian] I am always ready to discuss integration
within the scope of the EAEC. This is why we gathered here. I can see
and feel that very interesting things are happening. We have prepared
38 documents on the Single Economic Space. An agreement has been
prepared on reciprocal transit of goods via Kazakh territory and the
transit of Russian goods to Central Asia and China via our territory.
[Correspondent] The Russian president today also met his Armenian
counterpart, Robert Kocharyan. Armenia is an EAEC observer. [passage
omitted]
[Putin] As regards our economic relations, trade turnover is growing.
And I am certain the outlook for growth in the near future is good.
There are more than just projects. There is the desire of the business
community to develop partnership.
[Kocharyan, in Russian] I agree that the trade turnover is growing.
The positive dynamic trend is just excellent. There is a whole range
of very promising projects. Perhaps, we should now focus on the
investment component. I am convinced that in this case the future
will be exceptionally good.
[Putin] Excellent.
[Correspondent] I will just add that the summit is informal. [passage
omitted]
[A report by ITAR-TASS news agency at 1537 gmt quoted Nazarbayev
as saying Russia and Kazakhstan planned to sign an agreement on
cooperation in the gas sphere that would develop the memorandum signed
in St Petersburg in July. This envisages the establishment of a joint
venture to develop the Karachaganak gas deposit.
"In October during the meeting of governors of border regions in
Uralsk, we will sign an agreement on gas, as well as several other
agreements, including one to simplify border crossing arrangements,"
Nazarbayev said, according to the agency. Nazarbayev added that
the agreement on transit freight would increase goods traffic by 30
per cent.]
Channel One Worldwide (for Europe), Moscow
15 Aug 06
[Presenter] A summit of the Eurasian Economic Community, EAEC, is
opening in Sochi right now. [passage omitted] Our correspondent Pavel
Pchelkin is speaking with us live from Sochi.
[Correspondent] Hello. You can see that it is already late evening
here. It is not by accident that the opening of the summit was
scheduled for the evening. It has long been very hot in Sochi, more
than 30 degrees centigrade and absolute humidity. It was decided
that the meeting should open after the temperature had subsided. The
meeting is informal. The leaders came to visit Vladimir Putin in
order to discuss without rush ways of speeding up integration with
the EAEC. It will be unusually long for such summits and will last
three days. [passage omitted]
Before the start of the summit, Vladimir Putin met Nursultan
Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan. This country, like Russia,
is in fact the driving force of post-Soviet integration processes.
Our economies are developing energetically and this is pushing them
towards acting in concert, opening up commodity, service and capital
flows. [passage omitted]
[Putin] Relations between Russia and Kazakhstan are developing rather
effectively, including in the humanitarian sphere and in the economy.
They have remained very good on the political level. Our foreign
ministries are cooperating nonstop, agreeing their positions on
the main international problems. And I do expect that Kazakhstan
will play a part in the international arena. I am referring to the
possibility of Kazakhstan taking over the OSCE presidency. We will
provide comprehensive support for the candidacy of Kazakhstan.
[Nazarbayev, in Russian] I am always ready to discuss integration
within the scope of the EAEC. This is why we gathered here. I can see
and feel that very interesting things are happening. We have prepared
38 documents on the Single Economic Space. An agreement has been
prepared on reciprocal transit of goods via Kazakh territory and the
transit of Russian goods to Central Asia and China via our territory.
[Correspondent] The Russian president today also met his Armenian
counterpart, Robert Kocharyan. Armenia is an EAEC observer. [passage
omitted]
[Putin] As regards our economic relations, trade turnover is growing.
And I am certain the outlook for growth in the near future is good.
There are more than just projects. There is the desire of the business
community to develop partnership.
[Kocharyan, in Russian] I agree that the trade turnover is growing.
The positive dynamic trend is just excellent. There is a whole range
of very promising projects. Perhaps, we should now focus on the
investment component. I am convinced that in this case the future
will be exceptionally good.
[Putin] Excellent.
[Correspondent] I will just add that the summit is informal. [passage
omitted]
[A report by ITAR-TASS news agency at 1537 gmt quoted Nazarbayev
as saying Russia and Kazakhstan planned to sign an agreement on
cooperation in the gas sphere that would develop the memorandum signed
in St Petersburg in July. This envisages the establishment of a joint
venture to develop the Karachaganak gas deposit.
"In October during the meeting of governors of border regions in
Uralsk, we will sign an agreement on gas, as well as several other
agreements, including one to simplify border crossing arrangements,"
Nazarbayev said, according to the agency. Nazarbayev added that
the agreement on transit freight would increase goods traffic by 30
per cent.]