ASTANA, January 29. The fall in oil prices may have hit bottom, Kazakhstan should learn to live with low cost of “black gold”.
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This was stated by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, speaking at the XVII extraordinary Congress of “Nur Otan”.
“Goes to the end geo-economic supercycle, nothing unusual is happening, – said the head of state. – Facing the South-East, the crisis began in 1997, and in 1998 the world experienced the aftermath of the Asian crisis, if we remember that a barrel of oil in 1998 was worth 8.5 per dollar, then for decades the price of oil was going up and reached $ 120 per barrel”.
Nazarbayev believes that began, “the decade of falling, which may now be coming to the bottom”. “We have six months to live in conditions $30 per barrel, nothing happened, – stated the President. – Need to get used to it, and I think that is a long time”.
“We must learn to live in a new reality, to find opportunities for development, able to overcome the risks and some think that soon oil prices will rise, – concluded Nazarbayev. – We must learn to live in these realities and we have the ability and resources to overcome the crisis”.
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