ARMENIA LOOKING AT JOINING EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION – RUSSIAN SPEAKER

ITAR-TASS
July 24, 2012 Tuesday 06:05 PM GMT+4
Russia

Armenia is looking at joining the Eurasian Economic Union, speaker
of the Russian State Duma lower parliament house Sergei Naryshkin,
who is ending his Armenian visit, said on Tuesday.

According to the Russian speaker, subjects of Eurasian integrations
were raised at his talks with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan. “The Armenian leaders are closely
watching the development of the Eurasian project and are set to find
Armenia’s place in it,” Naryshkin said.

The Eurasian project, Naryshkin noted, already now is bringing about
positive results. Thus, in 2011 alone, mutual trade between the
three member countries of the Customs Union, i.e. Russia, Belarus,
and Kazakhstan, went up by 30 percent as compared with 2010.

After his talks with the Armenian leaders, the speaker of the Russian
State Duma reiterated that Armenia’s authorized agencies are working
out documents related to the ratification of the free trade zone
agreement in the Commonwelath of Independent States. “We hope it will
be ratified this fall,” Naryshkin added.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress