Pashinyan invites leaders of Iran and Singapore to attend Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting
18:28, 9 August, 2019
YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan invited President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong to Yerevan to participate in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting in October, ARMENPRESS reports Pashinyan announced on August 9 during the regular session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.
‘’At the beginning of July of this year I visited the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Singapore. As a country presiding over the EAEU, we particularly focused on cooperation issues with the mentioned two states. We discussed the opportunities of expanding trade and economic cooperation and particularly the issue of signing the FTA between Singapore and the EAEU. We reached an agreement that in case of timely completing the negotiation process and agreeing upon the draft agreement the Prime Minister of Singapore is ready to participate in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting in Yerevan, during which the agreement will be signed. I received the consent of all the leaders of all our Union’’, PM Pashinyan said.
Nikol Pashinyan asked the EAEU member states and the leadership of the Eurasian Economic Commission to maximally speed up all the necessary procedures required for the agreement, so as it can be successfully signed in Yerevan on October 1.
The Armenian PM informed that he has also invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in line with the agreement with the Heads of State of the EAEU member states.
Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan
