Medvedev will hold a series of meetings with colleagues EEU
Prime Minister Medvedev D. A. at the beginning of the first session of the intergovernmental Council of the Eurasian will hold on Thursday, a number of bilateral meetings with colleagues is going to discuss topical issues.
on the last working day of the week, February 6, in the capital of Russia will be held the first meeting of the intergovernmental Council of the Eurasian. It will engage the head of the governments of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Belarus from 1 January 2015 came into the presidency of the Supreme Eurasian economic Council, the intergovernmental Council of the Eurasian and the Council of the Eurasian economic Commission. Thursday starts working visit of Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov in Russia, He hopes to meet with Medvedev.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed on may 29, 2014 in Astana agreement on the Eurasian economic Union, He came into force on 1 January 2015.
The second of January is going to be joined by Armenia, in may planned accession of Kyrgyzstan. Appropriate documents were signed on 23 December last year.
the development of the EEU displays the participating countries of the former Customs Union whose total GDP accounted for 85% of GDP in the CIS countries with a higher level of integration. Thus, the forming of the largest common market in the CIS (170 million people), which will become a powerful new center for economic development.
during the first meeting of the Council, as reported by the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation, is Expected to consider a wide range of issues of integration of the agenda, concerning the functioning of the Eurasian economic Union (EEU), the development of the legal framework and implementation of a number of specific cooperation projects, as well As among them in the field of innovation.
in addition, the meeting will discuss the issue of accession of Kyrgyzstan to the EEU. Appropriate documents were signed on 23 December. It is planned that by may 9, after completion of all internal procedures Kyrgyzstan will become a full member of the Union.
The fall of the ruble can not affect the activity of the Union. Lukashenko had already talked about doing calculations with Russia in dollars or euros. And the national chamber of entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan has made a proposal to the government to impose temporary trade limits within the EEU for protection of the domestic market due to the weakening of the Russian ruble.
However, according to Russian experts, the EEU will withstand the fall of the ruble, and the members of the Association must, as soon as possible to carry out the coordination of monetary policy.
The Deputy Director of the Institute of economic forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Shirov had said Last news that the development of common projects with participation of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia, " in a rather difficult economic conditions it is able, first, to seal the Union agreement, And secondly, to be one of the elements out of this difficult economic situation, not only for Belarus and Kazakhstan, but also for the Russian Federation as well As among them."
for reviews of the Deputy Director of the Council for study of productive forces of the Ministry of economic development and the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Mityaev, the experience of the European Union, and many other regional associations shows that monetary area should be a General policy, if not right now, then after some time, and the question of a single currency within the EEU shall be raised in the medium term (3-5 years).
However, the head of Belarus is set to not more optimistic. He said that the issue of the single currency, of course, was discussed by the heads of States of the EAEC, but the agenda is not worth it. According to him, it is necessary to solve many questions, And among them those who deferred to 2025 ".
Lukashenko also said that the single currency of the Eurasian economic Union would not be introduced During his presidency.
The head of the Belarus - the country's presidency in 2015 EEU, Alexander Lukashenko said that Belarus will do its best to promote the development of Eurasian integration, and tried to convince member countries of the Eurasian economic Union (EEU) use opportunities. However, He noted that the development of this Union will not be easy.
according to him, it is necessary to accelerate the integration, faster to create a single energy market, transport, electricity. In addition, He said that will be difficult to accelerate.
Vice-Minister of national economy of Kazakhstan Timur Zhaksylykov at the end of January, said that more than 30 countries in the world conduct dialogues about the establishment of the free trade of the Eurasian economic Union.
according to him, now the participants is going to conduct dialogues with the countries of the European free trade Association, which includes Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well As New Zealand. In addition, a number of countries, including Turkey, India, Israel, Egypt and the countries of Latin America expressed its desire to start the negotiation process.
for example, the Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi industry said about the intentions in the coming year to sign an agreement with the Eurasian economic Union to greatly reduce tariffs between countries. The Ambassador of Egypt in the Russian Federation, Mohammed El-Badri said that Egypt wanted to join talks on the establishment of free trade between Egypt and the Eurasian economic Union. Turkey, Vietnam, India and China are also showing interest in joining the agreement on information exchange between the member countries of the EEC.
But we are talking about Ukraine's membership in the EEC, as told Lukashenko, is not. Thus, according to him, the ways of cooperation still need to find out.
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