Armenia seeks to join Eurasian Economic Union by June 15
Presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus — Vladimir Putin, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Alexander Lukashenko have signed a treaty on setting up the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). The treaty will come into effect on January 1, 2015, ITAR-TASS reported.
The presidents signed the document upon the results of the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Council at the level of state leaders in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, on Thursday.
According to the source, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has called for signing a treaty on the country’s joining the Eurasian Economic Union till June 15, 2014.
A draft document has been prepared, Sargsyan said at a session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on Thursday.
“I ask you to set a deadline for signing a treaty on Armenia’s joining the Eurasian Economic Union,” he said.
“It will take two or three days to find mutually advantageous decisions on the remaining issues,” Sargsyan said.