Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed formation of a free trade zone in Central Asia, RIA Novosti reports.
The president expressed confidence that Central Asian states need to develop railway networks, roads, develop common regional food pool. The region needs to develop oil and gas pipelines to export resources to Europe.
Another advantageous sphere is the water and energy potential of Central Asia.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan launched the Single Economic Space on January 1, 2012, a new integration structure for free trade of goods, services and capital. They also formed the Customs Union as a step to form the Eurasian Economic Union, an idea proposed by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1994.
