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  • Speaker urges settlements in national currencies in Eurasian Union

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    December 17, 2014 Wednesday 07:12 PM GMT+4


    Speaker urges settlements in national currencies in Eurasian Union

    MOSCOW December 17.


    . The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member countries should more
    actively use national currencies in mutual settlements, the speaker of
    the Russian Federation Council upper house of parliament said on
    Wednesday

    "This is a major step that would be useful for the national economies
    of the EEU countries," Valentina Matviyenko told reporters, adding
    however that the EEU countries should not rush into a single currency.

    "A single currency may appear only when it will be in demand from the
    national economies of the four countries," she said, noting that it
    had taken the European Union long to adopt a single currency, and even
    now not all EU countries were ready to join the eurozone.

    Earlier on Wednesday, the Federation Council ratified a treaty on
    Armenia's entry into the Eurasian Economic Union.

    The Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan came into
    existence on January 1, 2010. In May 2014, the presidents of the three
    countries signed an agreement on the Eurasian Economic Union, which
    comes into effect on January 1, 2015.

    Before that date, the parliaments of Belarus and Kazakhstan must
    ratify the treaty on Armenia's joining the EEU. --0-zhe/




    From: A. Papazian
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