Some 13,000 labor migrants arrived in Kazakhstan from EEU countries in 2016
ASTANA (TCA) — In the first eight months of 2016, 12,963 citizens from Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states arrived in Kazakhstan with employment purpose. The figure includes 9,388 people from Russia, 1,496 from Kyrgyzstan, 394 from Belarus, and 1,685 from Armenia, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development Svetlana Zhakupova said at the third meeting of the Almaty Process on International Migration and Refugee Protection in Astana on September 20, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.