哈萨克斯坦总统纳扎尔巴耶夫2008年9月22日在俄哈边境地区合作论坛上称,俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦将签订关于合作建立连接欧洲和中国的运输走廊的备忘录。他说,建立圣彼得堡—喀山—奥伦堡—阿拉木图—中国的连接西欧与中国西部的运输走廊对哈萨克斯坦来说意 Kazakhstan President Nazarbaev on September 22, 2008 in the Russia-Kazakhstan border cooperation forum said Russia and Kazakhstan will sign a memorandum of cooperation on establishing a transport corridor linking Europe and China. He said establishing a transport corridor linking Saint Petersburg to Kazan and Orenburg and Almaty to China to Western Europe and western China meant Kazakhstan