Kazakhstan: Russo-Kazakh relations 'exemplary' - Nazarbayev with Putin

W/S Russian President Vladimir Putin and former president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, Nur-Sultan
M/S Nazarbayev bestowing Putin with Order of Nazarbayev
SOT, Nursultan Nazarbayev, former president of Kazakhstan (Russian): "[I say] big thank you Vladimir Vladimirovich that you found time to arrive and commemorate our mutual brainchild - the Eurasian Economic Union. Today I met all colleagues and said: "What would anyone say, if something or someone we were unhappy, we cannot be without this union. If it did not exist we should come up with it.""
W/S Putin and Nazarbayev meeting *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Vladimir Putin, Russian President (Russian): "We are to have main events tomorrow."
Nursultan Nazarbayev, former President of Kazakhstan, (Russian): "Tomorrow."
Putin: "But we arrived here today in the evening at your invitation, guided by only one standpoint - respect for you, personally."
Nazarbayev: "Thank you."
Putin: "Thank you for invitation and thank you for all that was done up to this moment. And I would like to express confidence and hope that in your new position - honourary chairman of our union - we will continue to work together. We will do many things ahead about strengthening bilateral relations between Russia and Kazakhstan and about development of the integration."
M/S Putin *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Nursultan Nazarbayev, for President of Kazakhstan, (Russian): "I think that bilateral relations between Russia and Kazakhstan are exemplary for any country, how we built it with you."
Vladimir Putin, Russian President (Russian): "They certainly are."
Nazarbayev: "And your personal attitude to me and Kazakhstan has a special meaning and it is worth a lot."
W/S Putin and Nazarbayev meeting
SCRIPT
Former president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev called relations between Russian and Kazakhstan 'exemplary' during meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Nur-Sultan on Tuesday.
The Russian leader stressed his personal respect for Nazarbayev and expressed his hope that as honourary chairman, he would carry on developing relations between two states within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
Putin arrived in Nur-Sultan to take part in a five-year anniversary meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.