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Wed, February 1, 2023 | 11:24
Park returns home from Central Asia trip
朴대통령, '유라시아 외교' 중앙亞 순방 마치고 귀국
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President Park Geun-hye returned home Saturday from a three-nation trip to Central Asia focused mainly on expanding economic ties and winning support for her vision to tie Eurasian nations together through infrastructure development and trade.

The six-day trip to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan led to the signing of a series of agreements calling for closer cooperation on major economic projects currently under way as well as new projects in areas ranging from energy and power to infrastructure and agriculture.

In Uzbekistan, Park and President Islam Karimov agreed to push for new joint projects in gas development and solar power.

The agreement, if realized, would lead to South Korean participation in a US$4 billion gas development project in the Bukhara region of central Uzbekistan, and in the construction of a 100 megawatt solar power plant in Uzbekistan's second-largest city of Samarkand.

During the visit to Kazakhstan, the two sides signed a contract under which the Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company will pay the South Korean side US$18.8 billion to buy all of the electricity generated from a coal-fired power plant to be built jointly in the southern Kazakh city of Balkhash.

In Turkmenistan, two memorandums of understanding (MOU) were signed on the construction of a $2 billion gas-chemical plant in the Seydi District of Lebap Province in northeastern Turkmenistan, and a refinery converting natural gas to liquid fuels such as kerosene and diesel. The gas-to-liquids project is worth $3 billion.

Park's visit to Central Asia came eight months after she proposed the "Eurasia initiative" as a key part of her administration's foreign policy agenda.

The initiative calls for building more infrastructure and freeing up trade between Eurasian nations to create what could become a large single market rivaling the European Union.

Closer economic cooperation could also foster peace on the Korean Peninsula and lay the groundwork for a "Silk Road Express" that connects South Korea to Europe via North Korea, China and Russia, among other nations.

In Kazakhstan, the two sides signed an MOU calling for South Korean participation in the modernization of Kazakhstan's railways, which could lay the foundation for the envisioned Silk Road Express. (Yonhap)




朴대통령, '유라시아 외교' 중앙亞 순방 마치고 귀국

박근혜 대통령은 21일 밤 5박6일간의 중앙아시아 3개국 순방을 마치고 성남공항을 통해 전용기 편으로 귀국했다.

박 대통령은 우즈베키스탄, 카자흐스탄, 투르크메니스탄 3개국 순방을 통해 유라시아 이니셔티브를 구체화하는 '유라시아 외교'의 발판을 마련했다는게 청와대의 자체 평가다.

박 대통령은 우즈베키스탄과 정삼회담에서 최근 글로벌 경제부진에도 불구, 8% 이상의 고속성장을 해온 우즈베크과 13조원 규모의 기존·신규 경제협력 틀을 마련했다.

카자흐스탄과의 정상회담을 계기로는 한국 삼성물산측이 75% 지분을 보유하는 발하쉬 석탄화력발전소에서 생산되는 전력을 20년간 총 19조원을 구매하는 계약을 체결하는 성과를 거뒀다.

'가스 부국' 투르크메니스탄과도 12조7천억원 규모의 경제협력 틀을 구축했다.

박 대통령은 또 과거 핵보유국이었다가 자발적으로 핵을 포기한 대신 대규모 경제지원을 통해 경제성장을 이뤄낸 카자흐스탄의 누르술탄 나자르바예프 대통령을 비롯해 이들 3개국 정상들로부터 북핵 포기 촉구에 대한 공감대도 끌어냈다.

박 대통령은 귀국 후에는 여야로부터 자신 사퇴 압박을 받는 문창극 총리 후보자에 대한 임명동의안의 국회 제출과 관련한 재가 여부를 검토할 예정이다.

앞서 청와대 민경욱 대변인은 지난 18일 순방 첫 방문국인 우즈베키스탄의 수도 타슈켄트에서 이 나라의 역사 고도(古都)인 사마르칸트로 출발하기 직전 대통령 전용기 안에서 브리핑을 하고 '박 대통령은 총리 임명동의안과 인사청문요구서는 귀국해서 재가를 검토할 예정'이라고 전했다.

 
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