There is a union state of Russia and Belarus within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), but there is also another level of integration represented by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev said during a forum in Moscow, Akorda reported.
‘We have a union state within the EAEU, that is, a unique precedent has been created in world political history, or a phenomenon, as you wish, creation of a state according to the formula ‘two countries – one state’ with a single political, legal, military, economic, monetary, cultural, humanitarian space. With a single union government, with a single union parliament, I apologize, and even nuclear weapons are one for two now,’ Tokayev said at the Eurasian Economic Forum in Moscow.
At the same time, Tokayev noted that the EAEU also has ‘another level of integration’ represented by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia. ‘We have to deal with this reality. How we will work in these conditions is a conceptual question. I think we need to discuss this problem,’ the President of Kazakhstan concluded.
Source: Central Asian News Services