RIA Novosti, Russia
March 18 2005
EURASEC SESSION TO DISCUSS INTEGRATION COOPERATION
MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti, Olga Semyonova) -Integration
cooperation and the draft budget for 2006 will be the main items on
the agenda of the session of the Inter-State Council of the Eurasian
Economic Community (EurAsEC) at the level of the heads of government
which will meet on March 24 in Astana (Kazakhstan), a spokesman for
the information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry
told RIA Novosti on Friday.
“The session’s agenda consists of the issues concerning the further
development of the integration cooperation between the Community’s
countries in trade, economic, energy, social, humanitarian and other
spheres and also the consideration of the Community’s draft budget
for 2006,” the spokesman said.
According to him, the heads of government of the EurAsEC countries
will deliver reports at the session about the economic situation in
their countries and will make proposals with regard to the problems
of economic cooperation which call for a joint solution.
The Russian delegation at the session will be headed by Chairman of
the Russian government Mikhail Fradkov.
The members of the Eurasian Economic Community are: Belarus, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine
have the status of observers.