NUR-SULTAN, June 15. /TASS/: The continuity of friendship and alliance in relations between Russia and Kazakhstan remains and the Central Asian republic’s government will do everything possible to preserve it, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel published on Wednesday.
"The continuity of friendship and alliance between our countries is fully preserved. In any case, as the head of state, I will do everything possible to preserve truly friendly relations between our countries," he said.
According to the Kazakh leader, the friendship between Kazakhstan and Russia should be eternal.
That said, the Kazakh head of state noted that the Kazakh authorities do not reject their allied obligations to Russia despite sanctions pressure on Moscow. "In any case, Kazakhstan does not reject its allied obligations, that would be wrong, and, after all, unjustifiable from the point of view of prospects. I am confident that Russia will cope with current difficulties, this is a large country, a rather large economy. Russia, as past experience shows, functions very well precisely in emergency situations," he emphasized.
The Kazakh president explained that his country should not violate the current sanctions. "Especially since we receive notices that if the sanctions are violated, there will be the so-called secondary sanctions on the part of the West with regards to our economy. Very complex, delicate work is underway which I can compare to the passage between Scylla and Charybdis. Yet we continue to work with the Russian government in the accelerated mode and reach the necessary agreements without violating the sanctions," he stressed.
Tokayev said that Kazakhstan is committed to work in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). "I think that these organizations, integration unions, are developing completely gradually, normally. Kazakhstan is committed to its activities in these integration unions. And all the talk that Kazakhstan has allegedly lost interest and is going to leave the EAEU and the CSTO has absolutely nothing to do with the truth," he concluded.
