Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: “Without a doubt, these elections will be remembered as perhaps the most interesting in the history of our country.”

We face the task of developing new approaches to the management of transboundary water resources.

We, the CIS member states, must answer the question of what we want the Commonwealth to look like in the long term and what place it should occupy in the rapidly changing geopolitical architecture of Eurasia.

We must under no circumstances allow such a situation to happen again. Saving the Caspian, which was once rightly called ‘great’ and ‘wise,’ is not simply our responsibility but a matter of honor for the statesmen of our time.

I am convinced that, given mutual interest and firm political will, we can achieve significant progress in expanding cooperation across many areas of mutual interest.