Tokayev's Address to the Nation Stresses Security as Pillar of Sovereignty

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's address to the nation, titled “Pressing Tasks of Kazakhstan in the New Historical Period,” sets out the country's long-term development course. The document treats economic growth, infrastructure modernisation, use of digital opportunities and improved government efficiency as mutually linked tasks. National security, it says, must be considered alongside defence capability and the reliability of energy, transport, water, food and information infrastructure.

The address says total foreign direct investment attracted to the country in 2019–2025 reached $155.8 billion. In that period, 625 industrial enterprises were launched and about 62,000 jobs were created. For the “People's Construction” initiative, about 6.5 trillion tenge is planned to be allocated from the National Fund until the end of 2029.

Kazakhstan produced about 123 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, yet it still needs to buy power from abroad during peak loads. A Bakty–Ayagoz railway line is planned to open in 2027. The Aral–Caspian highway should shorten the Trans-Caspian route by about 1,000 km.