Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan today telephoned Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to discuss plans for the Russian government leader’s scheduled visit to Armenia to participate in the April 8 session of the Eurasia Intergovernmental Council in Yerevan.

The Intergovernmental Council is a European Economic Union body consisting of the Heads of the Member-States Governments.

The EEU consists of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation.

Tigran Sargsyan, a former prime minister of Armenia, serves as Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, the permanent regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).