EAEU to become one of key centers of Greater Eurasian Partnership, says Putin
"Our integration may play the role of one of the key centers of the Greater Eurasian Partnership formation," the president added.
"Our integration may play the role of one of the key centers of the Greater Eurasian Partnership formation," the president added.
The corresponding law was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
A large single market has been created, the mutual trade figures have increased considerably.
The aforesaid agreement will be applied in the event that the goods are subject to the procedure of customs transit in one EEU member country, whereas customs and other payments in another.
The issue has been discussed by the economy ministers of the Union’s member states and has been presented to the Eurasian Economic Commission in the platforms of the Eurasian Inter-governmental Council.
At the invitation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Pope Francis will pay a state visit to Kazakhstan on September 13-15, 2022, the message says.
Within three days after returning from Kazakhstan, the deputy PM must present a report on the results of the visit to the Prime Minister.
The aforesaid free trade agreement will enable the gradual lifting of customs duties on 80 percent of goods and the maintenance of the current tariffs for the rest.
"Washington threatens to expand them by including the enterprises of our partners who actively cooperate with the Russian ones and maintain cooperative relations with us," he said.
Issues relating to regional security and stability were also touched upon.
According to this decision, the export of cash in foreign currency and/or financial tools denominated in foreign currency in excess of US$10,000 is prohibited from Russia, the SRC informs.
As a result of the session, a joint decision of the CSTO Council of Ministers of Defense was signed to organize the return of military contingent of the CSTO member states from Kazakhstan to its permanent deployment points.
"Today, thanks to the joint and coordinated actions of the CSTO peacekeepers, the armed forces and law enforcement officers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the situation in the country has stabilized. During the operation, we gained invaluable experience of close cooperation between the peacekeeping contingents of the organization’s member states in countering terrorism and [counteracting] the destructive...
"As of 09:00 (06:00 Moscow time) on January 10, the total amount of damage was, according to rough estimates, more than 93.7 bln tenge. In Almaty - 92.2 bln tenge (over $209 mln)," the statement said.
On January 6, 2022, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas had a telephone conversation with the Chairman of the Collective Security Council, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the report said.
According to him, the purpose of this agreement is to coordinate and expand the exchange of information between the financial market regulators of the EEU member countries.
I am glad that we have already decided in this regard. So I am waiting for all of you in Yerevan in October.
All member states of the Eurasian Economic Union have acknowledged the elimination of the obstacle by Armenia. As Minister of Internal Markets, Informatization, Information and Telecommunication Technologies Gegham Vardanyan stated, Armenia, as a country with the least obstacles, has promptly taken steps to eliminate the obstacles by providing equal access to public procurement for businesses of member...
At the same time, the committee announces that the import duty relief for medical products specified in decisions of EEC No 21 of 16.03.2020 and No 34 of 03.04.2020 will be effective till September 30, 2020.
The privileged customs duties for around 1000 types of products was active since 2015 with a term of 5 years. The ratification extended the term for another year.
The summit must have taken place in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, on May 19, but due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, several countries have closed their borders and applied a quarantine regime.
We support maintaining the unity of the international community, the stability of the global economy and the principle of free movement of goods, including those of social significance, such as food, medical items, equipment, personal protective means.
During his trip, bilateral meetings are scheduled with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, First Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, President Armen Sarkissian, and National Assembly Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan.
Medvedev recalled that a similar agreement has already been concluded with Vietnam, Singapore and China, while negotiations with India are underway.
As the Iranian president noted, resistance to hostile actions led to harsh and inhuman sanctions; international obligations and agreements are ignored.
According to him, the Eurasian Economic Union is perceived by Armenia as some foreign object, from which "something must be pulled out".
According to the Russian ambassador, "in the future, Serbia may become one of the links on the space between the EU and the EAEU."
At the EEU intergovernmental board session, held in Yerevan, a range of key issues were raised concerning setting up joint markets of energy carriers, eliminating trade obstacles and so on. At least theoretically there are no hindrances to carry out the envisaged solutions. However, political statements are way far from implementation.
As Shaboyan stated, based on this study, the roaming service tariffs might be dropped to zero in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union.
“The negotiations with the EAEU were launched in Moscow in April 2018, following positive results of a comprehensive Joint Feasibility Study conducted by the parties,” a spokesperson for the Economy Ministry told The Times of Israel on Monday.
The Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, has left for Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he will take part in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting.
Armenia Deputy FM comments on appointment of CSTO Secretary General
The decision to postpone the venue of the session, of course, does not mean deterioration of Armenia’s relations with other CSTO member states. However, it can be said that what has happened is a consequence and a continuation of not very smooth developments in relations between Armenia and the CSTO in recent times.
Reactions to Nikol Pashinyan's election as prime minister also testified the consistent work that had been carried out with both Russia and the West.
It is known that the main Armenian products that enter the Eurasian markets are high-quality Armenian cognac, which is a national brand and is exported mainly to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, but in 2017 Armenia exported to these markets more than 1.2 million high-quality wines.
"Negotiations with the EAEU are proceeding well. Iranian Ministry of Industry and Trade is negotiating, they are satisfied. I very much hope that we will see the signing of this agreement in 2018," he said.
This year, by signing the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement with the EU, Armenia has finally implemented its "both and" policy.
During the annual conference certificates were presented to five new members of the Eurasian Expert Club, as well as gratitude certificates to the representatives of ten Armenian media for objective coverage of Eurasian integration. It should be noted that "Armedia" IAA was also awarded.
Earlier, on October 25, the document was adopted by the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus and on October 27 it was approved by the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly.
The winners were selected from 583 competition materials from all EDB member states.
Summing up the results of the discussion, the coordinator of the Eurasian Expert Club Aram Safaryan underscored the importance of overcoming the remaining obstacles and limitations of effective cooperation of the EAEU countries.
At the same time Tavadyan noted that there are still number of shortcomings that need to be overcome, such as high level of corruption in member states, low level of discipline in implementing contracts, non-coordinated macroeconomic policy etc.
Touching upon the perspectives of economic cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union, the parties underlined the successes recorded in the trade-economic cooperation.
In his words, the customs services of the EAEU member countries play a very important part in the ongoing integration processes in the expanse of this union.
In this sense, the attempts to identify a joint calculation unit with a single monetary unit are senseless.
The Eurasian Expert Club has developed several proposals that are designed to raise the level of political decisions made with the support of civil society and contribute to enhancing the effectiveness of parliamentary diplomacy.
In addition Mike Pence expressed the US readiness to assist its NATO allies in addressing the challenges the Alliance faces, affirming the United States' commitment to NATO and Article 5 — which lays out the principle of collective defense in the Alliance.
"Formation of multipolar world is taking place and the Eurasian space should become (and already becomes) one of the poles," Vladimir Lepekhin said in his report.
All this shows that at the moment our countries need to concentrate on reducing their economic imbalances, as well as on improving the coordination of economic policy, including in terms of ongoing anti-crisis measures.
Thus, the estimations actively circulating by the media, according to which our government should give up the idea of a free economic zone with Iran and the arguments from unknown sources, that it is not "economically appropriate" are hasty and false news, to put it mild.
Summarizing what has been said, we can note that as a result of these elections, 8.72% of the Armenian society gave preference to the most pro-Western forces, and 87.56%, to the combination of European and Eurasian integration processes.
It can be noted that two of the four political forces represented in the parliament clearly emphasize the importance of developing cooperation with both the Eurasian Union and the European Union. One of the other two forces also supports the "and-and" policy, since at the moment it is the best one in terms of the interests of Armenia.
Moldova is the first country, that has already signed the Association Agreement and DCFTA and at the same time wishes to cooperate with the EAEU. In fact, Chisinau followed the example of Armenia – the policy of "and-and".
Aram Safaryan in his turn appealed to the students, masters and post-graduates studying in the field of international relations and world politics who participated in the roundtable, emphasizing the importance of such events as an opportunity to get acquainted with the expert scientific assessment of current processes.
In January to September 2016, the state budget posted a deficit of AMD 93.6 billion, 40% more than in the same period of 2015.
During the conference the members of the Eurasian expert club also spoke about the presidency of Armenia in the CSTO.
First, digital technology or any innovative initiative within the Union can immediately be viewed as an important opportunity to enhance the activity of Armenia.
From 2017, the cost of gas for Belarus will be formed at the average price of the unified gas supply system of Russia multiplied by the multiplying factor.
"[I order] to declare June 9 a national mourning day in the Republic of Kazakhstan in light of the terror attack in the city of Aktobe that claimed the lives of the military and civilians," the president’s executive order reads.
"It is proposed that the ongoing issues related to the activity of the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as the development of trade cooperation with several foreign states will be discussed", the statements reads.
In this sense Eurasian Intergovernmental Council session that took place in Yerevan can hardly be considered another one in a series of the meetings. By a comprehensive estimation it can be named a driving meeting for the Eurasian Union.
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