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ITAR-TASS, Russia
February 22, 2014 Saturday 04:00 AM GMT+4
Armenia has done about 50% of what it should to join Customs Union - Armenian PM
YEREVAN February 22
- Armenia has implemented almost half of what it should to join the
Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Armenian Prime
Minister Tigran Sarkisyan said on Saturday.
"As of now, we have done about 50 percent of what we should in order
to join the Customs Union," he said in an interview with Itar-Tass.
"The roadmap [on joining the Customs Union] includes about 260
provisions we have committed to paper in a big plan endorsed by the
Armenian government. Twenty working groups have been set up in line
with this plan. These groups are headed by people who are in charge of
the implementation of these or those provision of the programme. They
report to the prime minister weekly."
He said a big working group on Armenia's accession to the Customs
Union and the Common Economic Space had had its meeting on Friday. The
group was set up at the instruction from the president of the four
countries - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. It includes eight
representatives from Armenia, as well as representatives from Russia,
Belarus and Kazakhstan.
"We received the head of this group, Minister of Eurasian Economic
Commission Tatiana Valovaya, who had come here with a team of experts.
So was had a good chance to discuss the entire roadmap. Heads of
working groups reported about what they had done and about issue that
were yet to be solved," Sarkisyan noted, adding that members of the
big working group had spoken about each of the roadmap's areas with
the Armenian partners. "They monitored the process of Armenia's
implementation of the roadmap, considered what we had already done,"
the Armenia prime minister said. "Today, they reported me that the
results were positive, we also have positive reports from our
colleagues about the pace of our work."
From: A. Papazian
February 22, 2014 Saturday 04:00 AM GMT+4
Armenia has done about 50% of what it should to join Customs Union - Armenian PM
YEREVAN February 22
- Armenia has implemented almost half of what it should to join the
Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Armenian Prime
Minister Tigran Sarkisyan said on Saturday.
"As of now, we have done about 50 percent of what we should in order
to join the Customs Union," he said in an interview with Itar-Tass.
"The roadmap [on joining the Customs Union] includes about 260
provisions we have committed to paper in a big plan endorsed by the
Armenian government. Twenty working groups have been set up in line
with this plan. These groups are headed by people who are in charge of
the implementation of these or those provision of the programme. They
report to the prime minister weekly."
He said a big working group on Armenia's accession to the Customs
Union and the Common Economic Space had had its meeting on Friday. The
group was set up at the instruction from the president of the four
countries - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. It includes eight
representatives from Armenia, as well as representatives from Russia,
Belarus and Kazakhstan.
"We received the head of this group, Minister of Eurasian Economic
Commission Tatiana Valovaya, who had come here with a team of experts.
So was had a good chance to discuss the entire roadmap. Heads of
working groups reported about what they had done and about issue that
were yet to be solved," Sarkisyan noted, adding that members of the
big working group had spoken about each of the roadmap's areas with
the Armenian partners. "They monitored the process of Armenia's
implementation of the roadmap, considered what we had already done,"
the Armenia prime minister said. "Today, they reported me that the
results were positive, we also have positive reports from our
colleagues about the pace of our work."
From: A. Papazian