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Lavrov noted that despite sanctions, trade between Russia and Kazakhstan is growing

MOSCOW, December 10 – RIA Novosti. Despite Western sanctions, bilateral trade prospects between Kazakhstan and Russia are good, trade between the two countries has not been damaged, declaration Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Despite all the sanctions that the West actively imposes on the world, contrary to all the norms of international law and the principles of the market economy, our trade turnover did not suffer. Kazakh TV channel Khabar 24.

Lavrov noted that in January-October this year, the trade turnover in bilateral trade with Kazakhstan “increased by about 10 percent, reaching approximately US$ 22 billion per year.”

“I’m talking about the old-fashioned dollar. It’s time to move away from calculations about our achievements and interaction in a currency that has proven unreliable. It’s always time to unilaterally implement discriminatory measures,” he said.

Lavrov emphasized that in the first ten months of this year, trade turnover indicators in the EAEU “remain at the level of the relevant period of 2021 and even slightly higher”.

“I think we’ll get additional positive information by the end of 2022,” he thinks.

According to Lavrov, in the EAEU, there are active discussions within the CIS on how to develop protective mechanisms that will make it possible not to depend on or depend on the “whims” of our “Western partners”, to reduce dependence, to serve trade and investment activities, the transition to the use of national currencies, the transition to the use of their own supply chains. using its own methods, including the creation of

“All this seems relevant and is actively discussed within the EAEU and CIS, including the Russia-Kazakhstan bilateral line.”

Source: Ria

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