ACCESSION TO CUSTOMS UNION TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS – RUSSIAN OFFICIAL
15:43 03.10.13
A Russian official in charge of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization’s (CSTO) Interstate Commission said Thursday that he is
not definately aware of the possible timeframes of Armenia’s accession
to the Eurasian Customs Union.
“Accession is a process that takes time. I don’t know how long the
activities will last, but there are all the chances to realize
the process at rapid paces,” a deputy minister of industry and
trade, Georgy Kalamanov, told Tert.am at a briefing held after the
Commission’s 11th meeting in Yerevan.
The Russian official said that membership in the Customs Union offers
member states a serious opportunity in terms of developing economic
potentials.
Asked whether membership in the CU will necessitate discussions
on a common currency, Kalamanov said he is not yet ready to answer
that question.
As for the ongoing speculations that the Union may, one way or another,
impose restrictions on its member states as a supranational body,
the deputy minister explained that the CU is first of all an economic
area focusing on economic issues rather than state sovereignty.
Asked whether the organization may turn into a new USSR, the Russian
official ruled out such a possibility.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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