Nazarbayev: Kazakhstan won't abandon its chief foreign policy principles
ASTANA. Feb 5 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan will adhere to its chief foreign policy principles: pragmatism and a consistent and balanced foreign policy, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.
"We remain loyal to our main foreign policy principles: pragmatism and a consistent and balanced foreign policy. We will broaden the involvement of our country in global affairs," he told diplomats accredited in Kazakhstan in Astana on Wednesday.
"The area of Kazakhstan's cooperation with other countries in a multilateral format has grown in the recent years," the president said.
Last year alone Kazakhstan was visited by the leaders of Russia, China, the European Commission, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Spain, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Finland and Latvia, he said.
"A task of the development of friendship and cooperation with Russia, China, Central Asian neighbors, the United States and EU countries is important for Kazakhstan," Nazarbayev said, adding that a primary area of cooperation with the Caspian Sea states was the definition of a legal status of the Caspian Sea.
