00:00This December, Kazakhstan and the European Union celebrate 10-year anniversary of the Enhanced Cooperation and Partnership Agreement,
00:07the first of its kind in the region.
00:09Signed in 2015 and ratified in 2020, the agreement covers 29 areas of collaboration from trade to critical raw materials.
00:16But then also areas such as transport, energy, areas such as water, climate change.
00:22We are talking about people-to-people contact.
00:24We are talking about visa facilitation agreement that we plan to sign with Kazakhstan.
00:27The EU is Kazakhstan's largest trading and investment partner, with bilateral trade turnover in 2024, exceeding 40 billion euros.
00:36Investitions from the European Union have made, for all years of independence, 200 billion dollars in the EU.
00:46And all foreign investments, the direct foreign investments, are 400 billion dollars.
00:51So, imagine, half of the investment has made from the European Union.
00:56Kazakhstan is one of Europe's key energy suppliers, providing 13% of oil and 16% of uranium imports.
01:0485% of land transit between Europe and Asia, including the Trans-Caspian transport route, goes through Kazakhstan.
01:10Для Европейского союза, прежде всего, Kazakhstan интересен в плане его энергетического потенциала,
01:18ну, а также транспортного потенциала в качестве связующего звена между Европейским союзом, Европой и Азией.
01:26Казах ambassador to Belgium and head of the EU mission, Роман Василенко,
01:30reminded members of the Brussels Press Club of the benefits Europe can receive by close cooperation with Kazakhstan
01:35and urged them to speed up the implementation of projects.
01:39We would like to call on the EU, its member states, as well as financial institutions
01:44to move faster and focus on practical implementations of the 2023 EBRD report
01:51on both hard and soft infrastructure in Central Asia.
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