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Erlan Idrisov, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan
In conclusion I would like to say that the year 2050 points to a change of generations.
In 2050, in my interpretation, we will have to pass the baton to the younger generation
so that the country will not be lost in the stream of history
and continue to move confidently on to the mid-century.
This is our milestone, because nobody knows what to expect from the future.
But yesterday I quoted a phrase of Anna Akhmatova from the book of Sergei Viktorovich,
that the future throws its shadow long before it comes. We need to understand that the future is coming,
we need to see its image and be prepared.
This is the meaning of the 2050 strategy.
It has been launched and the government intends to implement it.
We are convinced that the success of the strategy is in our own efforts.
But partnership with external forces is also an important component. The main forces are our immediate neighbors.
Russia has a special place. But naturally we will not be limited to this geography, we are open to the entire world.
Our multi-vector approach should work. We will build the closest relations with Russia.
We will construct intense relations with China. We will develop close relations with our neighbors in Central Asia.
We will develop serious relations with the EU, the USA, with India, Japan, Singapore, etc.
We will develop a network of favorable relations so that our internal efforts will be most effective.
Alexei Vlasov, Editor-in-Chief of VK
Dear Erlan Abilfaisovich, we attentively read your interview that was published in Kommersant before your visit.
I would like to ask a question connected to one of the aspects in that text.
It is not a secret that integration in information sphere
is one of the important components of the general integration process between Russia and Kazakhstan.
This is one of the bases for economic integration.
It is also not a secret that recently both the Russian and Kazakh press published information
that was contestable or sometimes even intentionally incorrectly interpreted integration trends in the economic and political spheres.
Therefore, the question of the quality and availability of information is very acute.
If we do not know enough, we cannot understand the aims and tasks of our strategic partners, which Russian and Kazakhstan are.
In 10 years Gennady Illarionovich was also actively participating in these processes -
no structure of expert or informational cooperation actually worked.
There are three Russian-Kazakh expert clubs and two expert forums,
but, frankly, they are all stillborn children.
So now my question:
From the point of view of Kazakhstan,
do you see the problem of precise information as the basis of integration as acutely as we see it in Russia?
Does the Foreign Ministry of the government of Kazakhstan have any proposals
for making our cooperation more efficient and oriented to a solution to the task that everyone present here supports
the project of Eurasian integration? Thank you.
Thank you very much, Alexei Viktorovich. It is an important question,
it has an interesting dimension.
I understand the philosophy of this question and think that it is correctly posed.
I will express my own point of view, it is not official.
A difference of opinions is very important from the point of view of growth,
the more you communicate in this atmosphere, the more productive it is,
because a difference of opinions stimulates growth.
This is my philosophical message.
The Russian political expert field is vast, so one cannot complain about the lack of opinions.
We can ask how professional, how expert, how independent they are.
This is the question I pose to myself when I read the reports.
Only a professional and truly independent opinion is valuable.
As for bringing together expert efforts, this is a new angle.
I can honestly say that in our integrational efforts we pay little attention to this question.
This is a big loss.
I think we should consider a new track, a new direction of integration.
We need to figure out how to involve independent non-state powers in the process of integration.
I think it can only be useful if we will be getting some contribution from independent experts,
we can bring together economists, political scientists, sociologists, because integration is an encompassing process.
We say that our space will live in new conditions and on new principles
economic efficiency, political profitability, united by common interests in the future.
And, obviously, it cannot be solved only at state level.