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SYRIA INTERESTED IN JOINING EURASIAN CUSTOMS UNION, BOOSTING INVESTMENT COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA, MINISTER SAYS
Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
January 20, 2015 Tuesday
Damascus, SANA - Economy and Foreign Trade Minister Humam al-Jazaeri
expressed Syria's desire to accede to the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU)
given its importance in achieving joint benefit for all state members.
The Minister was speaking during a meeting on Tuesday with Armenian
Ambassador in Damascus Arshak Poladian, whose country became an ECU
member early this year.
Eurasian Customs Union came into existence on January 1, 2010 as the
Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, only to be later
expanded to include Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.
Al-Jazaeri noted that Syria's accession to the Union would help open
up promising markets for the Syrian products and establish investment
networking with friendly countries.
Talks between the Minister and the Armenian Ambassador focused mainly
on ways to further cement bilateral economic and trade cooperation
relations, a step al-Jazaeri said should not be limited to only
boosting the trade exchange between the two sides.
The development of cooperation, he added, should be expanded towards
starting investment projects in Syria, with well-qualified expertise
and workforce being employed.
The Minister recognized in this context the effective role of the
Syrian-Armenian Business Council in this development, for whom
al-Jazaeri pledged the Ministry's all necessary support.
He called for establishing an intensive work plan at a governmental
level for the coming period to strengthen communication and develop
new means to upgrade bilateral relations between Syria and Armenia.
On his part, the Armenian Ambassador referred to a slower pace of
progress in the Syrian-Armenian relations over the past period under
the exceptional circumstances taking place in Syria.
Yet, Poladian said, many of Armenians in Syria have not left and
are continuing work and production and now look positively at the
improving circumstances.
Manar al-Frieh/Haifa Said
Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
January 20, 2015 Tuesday
Damascus, SANA - Economy and Foreign Trade Minister Humam al-Jazaeri
expressed Syria's desire to accede to the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU)
given its importance in achieving joint benefit for all state members.
The Minister was speaking during a meeting on Tuesday with Armenian
Ambassador in Damascus Arshak Poladian, whose country became an ECU
member early this year.
Eurasian Customs Union came into existence on January 1, 2010 as the
Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, only to be later
expanded to include Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.
Al-Jazaeri noted that Syria's accession to the Union would help open
up promising markets for the Syrian products and establish investment
networking with friendly countries.
Talks between the Minister and the Armenian Ambassador focused mainly
on ways to further cement bilateral economic and trade cooperation
relations, a step al-Jazaeri said should not be limited to only
boosting the trade exchange between the two sides.
The development of cooperation, he added, should be expanded towards
starting investment projects in Syria, with well-qualified expertise
and workforce being employed.
The Minister recognized in this context the effective role of the
Syrian-Armenian Business Council in this development, for whom
al-Jazaeri pledged the Ministry's all necessary support.
He called for establishing an intensive work plan at a governmental
level for the coming period to strengthen communication and develop
new means to upgrade bilateral relations between Syria and Armenia.
On his part, the Armenian Ambassador referred to a slower pace of
progress in the Syrian-Armenian relations over the past period under
the exceptional circumstances taking place in Syria.
Yet, Poladian said, many of Armenians in Syria have not left and
are continuing work and production and now look positively at the
improving circumstances.
Manar al-Frieh/Haifa Said