00:00The Kyiv authorities continue to try to strike vital targets in cities of Russia, including
00:08Moscow and St. Petersburg.
00:09Any country, any member state should decide for itself.
00:15And now as for the projects in energy, we might expand our cooperation in the field
00:20of nuclear power because we've already started working together.
00:30The visit to Kazakhstan is almost over.
00:44You were received at the highest level.
00:46How do you assess the prospects of cooperation?
00:48Well, I said them as good.
00:51Kazakhstan, as I said, is not just our ally or reliable partner, but it's important that
00:57Kazakhstan is successfully developing under the guidance of President Taikaev.
01:04It shows stable growth, sustainable growth, reliable growth, and social and political
01:11situation in the country is stable, which is very important to be able to plan affairs
01:22in the economy, to make investments into the economy of Kazakhstan.
01:27I've mentioned almost $30 billion of trade turnover between our countries, and it continues
01:32to grow.
01:33Traditionally, we have such domains of cooperation as space exploration, energy, and these days,
01:42high technology.
01:45And now as for the projects in energy, we might expand our cooperation in the field
01:51of nuclear power because we've already started working together.
01:55And Kazakhstan is the largest uranium producer in the world.
02:01And we are present at the uranium field in Kazakhstan.
02:08And in industry, we have good prospects, especially in industrial cooperation.
02:15One of the issues was and partially still remains a problem of settlements, but more
02:22than 80 percent of all the settlements are now being done in national currencies.
02:27And this, of course, makes our work easier in finances.
02:34And besides, we have the humanitarian ties, ties between our peoples at a very good level
02:42because Kazakhstan is basically a Russian-speaking country.
02:45I guess you felt it yourself.
02:48And unfortunately, there are always a lot of people who have their own opinion about
02:54how should be done or who are critical about what's going on both in Russia and in Kazakhstan.
03:02And this position, this criticism is not always in the interest of the states, the Russian
03:12state in this particular case.
03:14It's not always beneficial.
03:16I believe we need to do everything to make the ties stronger and not to make steps that
03:21would destroy our relations and undermine our relations.
03:26For example, in the field of energy, we have some traditional things, but nevertheless,
03:32we might have some large-scale projects in energy transportation to the third countries
03:38via the territory of Kazakhstan.
03:43And traditionally, we have the situation where in one of the Kazakhstan regions, they lack,
03:48for example, natural gas, and in the other areas, they have surplus of this resource.
03:55And we need to join our efforts.
03:58We supply something to Kazakhstan, we receive something from Kazakhstan, and Kazakhstan
04:03has a vast territory, and we have a vast territory, and sometimes it is more profitable to exchange
04:09like this than to extract something or to produce something in our own territory.
04:15So I believe we have very good prospects for the future.
04:18And yesterday, we spoke about this with President Tukayev in informal environment.
04:25Entire evening over the dinner, we spoke about these prospects.
04:29Once again, I assess them highly positively.
04:33The CSTO has nothing to do with this, and I've spoken about this on many occasions.
04:39Everything that happened there has nothing to do with the CSTO, because there was no
04:46external aggression against Armenia.
04:48The CSTO is supposed to protect its member states from the external aggression, and the
04:54Nagorno-Karabakh situation was a peculiar case, because Armenia did not recognize Nagorno-Karabakh
05:03as part of this state, or it did not recognize it as an independent state.
05:07So everything that happened in Karabakh from the legal standpoint had nothing, was not
05:13directly related to the CSTO.
05:18So claims that the CSTO was supposed to fight inside this enclave, it sounds odd, isn't
05:24it?
05:25But nevertheless, it's a very sensitive topic.
05:28And from the sidelines, it's always easy to give various estimates.
05:36From the inside, it's always much more difficult.
05:39In my view, any country, any member state should decide for itself what's in its national
05:49interest.
05:50And we will respect this choice and this decision.
05:53That's one.
05:54And two, Armenia has not declared it withdrawing from the organization.
05:58It just said that they are taking some time and they're suspending their participation,
06:03but they support all the documents that are adopted, including during today's session,
06:07during today's negotiations.
06:11And they draw our attention to this.
06:15If this is true, then there is a chance that Armenia will go back to the full-fledged participation
06:20within this organization.
06:22We'll see.
06:23Once again, I will repeat it.
06:28The final decision is with the member state.
06:32Every target will be engaged using relevant instruments and weapons.
06:37For example, using a hypersonic missile against a minor target makes no sense, because it's
06:49like firing a cannon against sparrows.
06:55But we will use every weapon in our disposal, at our disposal, without ruling out the use
07:03of Oreshnik missile complex against military and defense industry targets or centers of
07:17decision-making, including those in Kyiv, keeping in mind that, as I said, a Kyiv authority
07:25has continued to try to strike vital targets in cities of Russia, including Moscow and
07:32St. Petersburg.
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