... implementation will benefit the country. Like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan is benefiting from rising energy prices.
Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan can be considered the main beneficiaries from migration from Russia. At the same time, the question of the stability ... ... significant increase in fuel prices, which will also inevitably affect economic growth.
Finally, two other neighbouring countries, Iran and North Korea, should be mentioned. Tehran has a unique window of opportunity. The risk of a shortage of oil in the world ...
... falling by 3%. Exports from Kazakhstan have dropped by 54%, while imports have increased by 32%.
Fardin Eftekhari:
Is Russia Preparing to Get Closer to Iran in the Biden Era?
In other words, the FTA serves as an incentive for Russia to foster trade with Iran. Kazakhstan has also increased its imports from the country. However, there have been no serious positive shifts with regard to the remaining EAEU countries.
Real Prospects
It would seem that trade cooperation between Iran and the EAEU will do little to ...
... electrical and mechanical machinery and equipment, coffee and tea, shoes, textile goods, and fruits and nuts. Vietnam’s exports to Kazakhstan grew six-fold in 2016 before falling by 13.6 per cent in 2017 and then growing by 20 per cent in 2018. The growth was ... ... customs barriers in order to improve the opportunities to realize his country’s economic potential.
Provisional Agreement with Iran
Andrey Kortunov:
One More Time on Greater Europe and Greater Eurasia
The second agreement was signed with Iran in May 2018 ...
Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Turkmenistan met recently to sign the convention on the legal status of the resource-rich Caspian Sea, a document more than two decades in the making. Meeting in the Kazakh coastal town of Aktau in mid-August, the ...
... destabilization, are risks that threaten all the region’s governments without exception and demand a response from Russia, Kazakhstan and China, among others. Together, they constitute yet another spur to integration. Seeds of destabilization originating ... ... active role.
REUTERS/RIA Novosti
Armenian Experts’ Debate:
“Membership in the EEU in Exchange for
Security”
Iran
Growing influence in the region may fall to Iran. While sanctions caused considerable damages to Iran’s economy, they ...
... much to economic and political considerations, but to ethnic and cultural affinity. In contrast to the Turkic peoples that dominate the region, the Tajiks together and Iranians belong to the Indo-European linguistic family. Throughout its independence, Kazakhstan has become Iran's largest trading partner in the region, with the swap-based system of oil supplies
[2]
. Ties with Turkmenistan are stable and dynamic.
Experts estimate
that, in 2012, Iran was Turkmenistan’s third largest trading partner (after China and ...
... important strategic objective for the USA and the West in their search for alternative, non-Russian, sources of energy resources, has become a serious problem in matters of cooperation in the Caspian region. This is why the idea of excluding Russia, Iran and Kazakhstan from the work of resolving these problems emerged. On 18 November 2010 President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenia officially announced Ashkhabad’s position at the summit of heads of Caspian states in Baku, stating that the underwater ...
... mechanism for imposing a moratorium on catching sturgeon.
According to official statements, the negotiations only made headway on environmental issues (such as conserving the sturgeon population). In addition, the “Caspian Five” (Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan) reaffirmed the principle of Caspian states’ non-interference in regional affairs.
As far as I can gather, no progress has been achieved on the main problem, i.e. agreeing spheres of influence. And without ...
... Nagorno-Karabakh and the
systemic modernization of the armed forces
will remain hot topics in Baku.
During the past several years,
Kazakhstan's
key political issue has been the succession of power. It is its first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has personally ... ... presidency of Mahmud Ahmadinejad
coming to end, while he cannot stand for re-election
by law
2013 is going to be thorny for
Iran
, with the second presidency of Mahmud Ahmadinejad coming to end, while he cannot stand for re-election by law. The question ...