Kyrgyzstan expects to increase the volume of export-import transactions with Russia to $5 billion per year through new trade formats and the removal of obstacles at the borders. The Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic Akylbek Japarov announced in Krasnoyarsk at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Russian-Kyrgyz Commission on Cooperation.
According to him, the goal of $5 billion has already been set, all that remains is to move steadily towards it.
«To achieve this, we are taking measures such as developing new trade formats, reducing financial and resource costs for entrepreneurs, introducing new tools to support exporters, as well as eliminating obstacles to the free movement of goods across borders within the EAEU countries,» he said.
According to him, in 2023 the trade turnover between the two states reached almost $3 billion.
The task of increasing mutual trade was set for the relevant structures of the two states by the Presidents of Russia and Kyrgyzstan Vladimir Putin and Sadyr Japarov following their bilateral meeting.
