BELARUS URGES ARMENIA TO COOPERATE WITH CUSTOMS UNION
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Oct 22 2013
22 October 2013 – 10:17am
Andrey Smirnov, Vice President of the Eurasian Cooperation Development
Foundation, said that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s
statement that Armenia could not join the Customs Union in the
near future had been made to encourage Armenia to adopt technical
regulations and legislative amendments.Smirnov explained that the
Customs Union had a large volume of materials and standards Armenia
needed to adopt and Lukashenko’s words were a signal for changes.The
expert believes that Lukashenko was actually encouraging Armenia
to cooperate more actively with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The
Armenian-Belarusian Trade Center was operating in Armenia, a cognac
factory opened in Belarus.Smirnov said that the declarations of
September 3 needed to be put into a legal document. Such document may
appear at the Minsk summit of heads of the Eurasian Economic Union
on October 24.
Andrey Smirnov, Vice President of the Eurasian Cooperation Development
Foundation, said that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s
statement that Armenia could not join the Customs Union in the
near future had been made to encourage Armenia to adopt technical
regulations and legislative amendments.
Smirnov explained that the Customs Union had a large volume of
materials and standards Armenia needed to adopt and Lukashenko’s
words were a signal for changes.
The expert believes that Lukashenko was actually encouraging Armenia
to cooperate more actively with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The
Armenian-Belarusian Trade Center was operating in Armenia, a cognac
factory opened in Belarus.
Smirnov said that the declarations of September 3 needed to be put
into a legal document. Such document may appear at the Minsk summit
of heads of the Eurasian Economic Union on October 24.
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