BISHKEK, Dec. 27 -- Kyrgyzstan's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will not affect its cooperation with China, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev told Xinhua on Saturday at his annual year-end press conference.

Answering Xinhua reporter's question, Atambayev said China is a brotherly neighboring country for Kyrgyzstan, expressing his full support to Chinese President Xi Jinping's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative.

Relations between China and Kyrgyzstan as well as those between China and other EEU member states will be further deepened in the future, he noted.

More than 130 journalists from 76 media attended Saturday's press conference.

On December 23, Kyrgyzstan signed an agreement to be a member of EEU in May 2015 during the meeting of the Eurasian Supreme Economic Council.

The council comprises heads of states and governments of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, which are the founding members of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space.

The EEU is designed with the mission to increase economic cooperation within the member states as they agree to guarantee the free flow of goods, services, capital and labor and to implement a coordinated policy in the energy, industrial, agricultural and transport sectors.