Kazakhstan says could quit EEU membership, should it threat its inde

Kazakhstan says could quit EEU membership, should it threat its independence

15:40 01.09.2014

“Kazakhstan has a right to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union,”
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev told his country’s Khabar
television, according to remarks cited by Kazakhstan’s Tengri News.
“Kazakhstan will not be part of organizations that pose a threat to
our independence.”

“Our independence is our dearest treasure, which our grandfathers
fought for,” Nazarbayev was quoted as saying. “First of all, we will
never surrender it to someone, and secondly, we will do our best to
protect it.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Kazakhstan’s history of
independent statehood is scant and its people’s desire for closer ties
with Russia is profound.

Kazakhs have taken to social networks to call for supporters to “send
a history textbook to Putin” in response to the Russian leader’s
remarks last week that the Central Asian nation had never held any
independence worth speaking of until very recently.

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has “created a state on a
territory that never had a state,” Putin told a pro-Kremlin youth camp
at Lake Seliger near Moscow. “Kazakhs never had any statehood, he has
created it,” he said, the Moscow Times reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress