Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the regular session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, which is being held in Yerevan as part of Armenia’s EAEU presidency.

The following is an Armenian government press release regarding Pashinyan’s remarks at the session.

Nikol Pashinyan welcomed the leaders of EAEU-member states at Baghramyam-26 in Yerevan: President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov and Eurasian Economic Commission Board Chairman Tigran Sargsyan.

Following the ritual handshake and video session, the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council met in narrow and expanded formats.

Opening the narrow-format meeting, the Armenian Premier stated:

“Dear colleagues, welcome to Armenia. I am pleased to welcome you to the regular session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. This is a significant event for Armenia. We are delighted to host high-level guests in Yerevan, hold a meeting of our organization’s supreme body, and thereby to make another contribution to the integration process.

As I have stated many times, we intend to participate in the EAEU as effectively as possible, while trying to improve the mechanisms of cooperation and the effective functioning of the integration area.

Before discussing the agenda items, I would like to note that it is twice as enjoyable for us to hold today’s session, attended by the leaders of Iran and Singapore, with which the Union is building trade and economic relations in a bid to set up an even broader free trade area.

Through close cooperation between all EAEU units, we managed to expand the Union’s geographical coverage, which makes today’s meeting a special one. I wish you fruitful proceedings.”

During the narrow-format sitting, the EAEU-member states exchanged views on the proceedings of Eurasian Economic Forum’s panel discussions, discussed the arrangements for distribution of import duties among the member states’ budgets, and the Eurasian Economic Commission Board’s activities.

Later, the meeting continued in expanded format with the participation of President of Moldova Igor Dodon as the head of an observer state, and guests of honour President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.

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