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ARMENIA SIGNALS MOVE TOWARDS RUSSIA-LED EURASIAN UNION
News | 03.09.13 | 19:39
Photo: www.president.am
Armenia has decided to join the Customs Union and later participate
in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union, the presidents of
Armenia and Russia, Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin, said in a
joint statement following their talks in Moscow today.
The Russian president's official website kremlin.ru says during
the talks at Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow the
sides discussed at full length the current state and prospects of
bilateral allied partnership, issues connected with cooperation in
the foreign-policy domain.
"We conducted a detailed exchange of opinions on issues of Eurasian
integration and I confirmed Armenia's desire to enter the Customs
Union and join the process of forming the Eurasian Economic Union,"
said Sargsyan in his statement for the press following the meeting,
as quoted by Kremlin.ru.
Putin, for his part, said: "The Russian side supports the decision
of Armenia on joining the Customs Union, its participation in the
formation of the Eurasian integration process. We will comprehensively
support this process. I am sure that Yerevan's joining Eurasian
integration structures will give a powerful impetus to mutually
advantageous economic cooperation."
In July Armenia completed talks with the European Union on establishing
a deep and comprehensive free trade area, which is, according to many
indications, a mutually exclusive project with the Customs Union
of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Armenia has also been expected
to initial an Association Agreement with the European Union at the
Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in November.
It is not clear yet whether Armenia will go ahead with its plans
after Sargsyan's September 3 talks in Moscow.
http://armenianow.com/news/48169/armenia_eurasian_union_serzh_sargsyan_vladimir_put in
From: A. Papazian
News | 03.09.13 | 19:39
Photo: www.president.am
Armenia has decided to join the Customs Union and later participate
in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union, the presidents of
Armenia and Russia, Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin, said in a
joint statement following their talks in Moscow today.
The Russian president's official website kremlin.ru says during
the talks at Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow the
sides discussed at full length the current state and prospects of
bilateral allied partnership, issues connected with cooperation in
the foreign-policy domain.
"We conducted a detailed exchange of opinions on issues of Eurasian
integration and I confirmed Armenia's desire to enter the Customs
Union and join the process of forming the Eurasian Economic Union,"
said Sargsyan in his statement for the press following the meeting,
as quoted by Kremlin.ru.
Putin, for his part, said: "The Russian side supports the decision
of Armenia on joining the Customs Union, its participation in the
formation of the Eurasian integration process. We will comprehensively
support this process. I am sure that Yerevan's joining Eurasian
integration structures will give a powerful impetus to mutually
advantageous economic cooperation."
In July Armenia completed talks with the European Union on establishing
a deep and comprehensive free trade area, which is, according to many
indications, a mutually exclusive project with the Customs Union
of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Armenia has also been expected
to initial an Association Agreement with the European Union at the
Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in November.
It is not clear yet whether Armenia will go ahead with its plans
after Sargsyan's September 3 talks in Moscow.
http://armenianow.com/news/48169/armenia_eurasian_union_serzh_sargsyan_vladimir_put in
From: A. Papazian