Kazakh ambassador, head of Russian business union mull cooperation
Astana, 21 May: The business council of the Eurasian Economic Community [members are Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus,
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan], the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Kazakh confederation of
employers plan to discuss at a September meeting in Astana business's involvement in and influence on the
development of a state.
Entrepreneurs from the two countries specifically plan to organize a round table entitled "The role of big
business in developing a state's social and economic potential".
The president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Arkadiy Volskiy, reported the above at a
meeting in Moscow with Kazakh Ambassador to Russia Krymbek Kusherbayev on 19 May, a press release circulated by the
embassy's press service says.
During the meeting "the sides discussed the development of economic ties between Kazakhstan and Russia, as well
as specific ways to step up cooperation between industrialists and entrepreneurs of the two countries", the press
release notes.
Kazakh-Russian trade up 30 per cent in 2003
The sides acknowledged that the pace of economic cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan was high. For instance,
trade turnover between the two countries in 2003 rose by 30 per cent as compared to 2002 and totalled 5.2bn dollars.
Kusherbayev briefed his interlocutor on the content of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's message to the
country's people and on the progress of the implementation of strategic development programmes, the press release
says.
[Passage omitted: the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs was set up in 1991]
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