Monday, May 14 2018 19:22

ArmInfo. The meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was held in Sochi. Russian presidents Vladimir Putin, Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan  Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstan Jeenbekov Sooronbay and Armenian  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took part in the meeting.

According to the Kremlin, the agenda includes cooperation in the  energy sector, the digital economy, medicine, ecology, as well as  granting Moldova the status of an observer country in the Eurasian  Economic Union.

The meeting of the council started in a narrow composition, then it  continued in the extended one.

During the meeting in a narrow format, the Russian leader began the  meeting with the greetings of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol  Pashinyan. "Once again, I congratulate you, Mr. Pashinyan, on your  election to a high-ranking state post, and I note that today we have  a very rich agenda, and we are going to sum up the functioning of the  union and take a number of strategic decisions to further deepen  integration." Russia, which presides in 2018 in the organs The  Eurasian Economic Union, proposed an expanded program of joint work,  among which I emphasize increasing efforts to create common markets  for goods and services, further development of trade and investment  ties, strengthening of production and technological cooperation,  "Putin said.

At the same time, he stressed the need to continue the policy of  convergence of monetary and financial and monetary policies of the  countries, building new, more efficient transport and logistics  chains. According to Putin, in many of these areas there are already  serious achievements: domestic trade and the volume of supplies of  goods and services to third countries are growing, the structure of  exports is improving, the share of products with high added value is  expanding, new joint ventures are being created and promising  investment projects are being launched and how consequence, the gross  domestic product of all member countries increases.

"It is important to continue developing integration processes, in our  opinion, there are good opportunities for close cooperation in such  areas as nuclear and renewable energy, ecology, medicine, space,  tourism, sports." It would be useful to pay more attention to  cooperation in the social and humanitarian sphere, education, as well  as in the deepening of interregional and cross-border links. I would  like to note that the Russian chairmanship is entirely aimed at  strengthening our union, giving additional impetus to the  rapprochement of the economies of the countries "the five and, most  importantly, contribute to the comprehensive development of our  states. In particular, I would like to single out one important  issue, one that I think is important: the approval of the draft of  the provision on the status of the observer state prepared by the  Eurasian Commission As I understand, all the members of the Supreme  Eurasian Economic Council support this decision, and therefore, as  agreed earlier, today we can grant the status of an observer state to  the Republic of Moldova. I expect that, following the results of the  discussion, this proposal will be approved by you, and the President  of Moldova, Igor Dodon, will be able to participate as an observer in  an enlarged session, "the Russian leader said.

Following the results of the meeting in the narrow composition of the  country, the members of the Union approved the granting of observer  status to Moldova in the Organization.