Putin okays signing EEU agreement with Armenia
01.09.2014,
16:20
Russian president Vladimir Putin has okayed a Russian governemnt proposal on signing an agreement with Armenia on its joining the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), which has apart from Russia also Belarus and Kazakhstan, RIA Novosti reported.
YEREVAN, September 1. / ARKA /. Russian president Vladimir Putin has okayed signing an agreement with Armenia on its joining the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), which has apart from Russia also Belarus and Kazakhstan, RIA Novosti reported.
On May 29 Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed in Astana the treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union that will enter into force on 1 January 2015. Armenian prime minister Hovik Abrahamyan said on July 10 that the agreement on Armenia’s accession would be signed before the end of October.
"To consider it expedient to sign the agreement (on Armenia’s accession), as provided for by the order of heads of state at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council,” a Putin-signed decree says. -0-
