ARMENIA CONCERNED ABOUT DEEPENING AND EXTENSION OF RELATIONS WITH EURASEC
ArmInfo
2009-06-10 18:02:00
ArmInfo. Armenia is concerned about deepening and extension of the
economical, political and cultural relations with EurAsEC countries,
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan told Arminfo correspondent
on board when returning from the 23-rd session of EurAsEC Inter-state
Council held in Moscow.
He also added these relations are developing quite dynamically and
new institutes are being created within the frames of EurAsEC, new
instruments which Armenia can use being not a fully-fledged member of
EurAsEC. At the same time, Sarkisyan added there are several problems
to be resolved for Armenia’s becoming the fully-fledged member of
EurAsEC. "The first and most important problem is a problem of the
Customs Union, which is not stemming from the economic interests
of Armenia. For this reason we still abstain from the fully-fledged
participation in EurAsEC", – Armenian premier said.
He recalled that within the frames of the 23-rd Inter-state Council
of EurAsEC prime ministers of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia signed
a trilateral agreement on setting up of the Customs Union which will
start acting since 2010. The Union is going to join the WTO like a
single customs territory. "Our partners are flexible and they have
to pass some way.
They have declared about their principle political decision to continue
talks as a single union with the WTO. It is not ruled out that several
years later the customs taxes, which do not meet our interests,
maybe revised within the frames of EurAsEC. And if these countries
join the WTO, naturally, these obstacles will disappear", – he said.