Kyrgyzstan wants to join Customs Union - premier

Kyrgyzstan is interested in joining the Customs Union and the common economic space between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the country's prime minister, Almazbek Atambayev, said on Friday, RIA Novosti
report.

"Kyrgyzstan and Russia have a common past, and I think our future will also be shared. We see Kyrgyzstan in the Customs Union and in the common economic space," Atambayev told the head of the Russian presidential administration, Sergei Naryshkin, during a meeting in Moscow.

"Once we were parts of the same great country, and no one is preventing us from being part of the common economic space and the Customs Union," he said.