Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev told \"Kazakhstanskaya pravda\" in a 23 February interview that President Nazarbaev\'s 18 February appeal to form a union of Central Asian states was not a call for the creation of a single state. Toqaev said that Nazarbaev \"did not mean the setting up of a \'union state\' that would clearly swallow national sovereignty....\" Toqaev stressed that what Nazarbaev had in mind is a movement for greater integration based on a free-trade zone, customs union, common market, and currency union. \"The experience and principles stipulated in the main documents on setting up the European Union will be used,\" Toqaev added. (RFE/RL)