The Role of Kazakhstan in the Eurasian Economic Union

Based on a multi-vector foreign policy, Kazakhstan is positioning itself as an active participant in many regional and global international organizations, including the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). The establishment of the EEU was a realization of the idea of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on the creation in the post-Soviet space of a qualitatively new integration association - the Eurasian Union, which was announced during his speech at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1994. It is known that initially 3 states (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan) signed an agreement on the creation of the EEU. But then, mainly with the active assistance of Kazakhstan and Russia two other countries: Kyrgyzstan and Armenia-also joined the EEU. This article discusses the priorities of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy within the EEU, as well as the prospects for Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to join this organization