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19 items are included in the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union's [EAEU] Supreme Council in Yerevan.

Three issues will be discussed in the narrow format meeting while the remaining 16 in the expanded format, Armenpress reported.

Issues related to the Eurasian Economic Forum, the presidency and staff of the Eurasian Economic Commission and customs tariffs of imports to EAEU member states will be discussed at the narrow format meeting.

Items included in the expanded format meeting are the EAEU 2018 budget execution, the EAEU 2020 budget, the development concept of a single financial market in the EAEU, a number of internal changes and the location of the next summit.

Leaders of all member states of EAEU – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Kazakhstan President Kassim Jomart-Tokayev will participate in the Yerevan summit.

Eurasian Economic Commission Chairman of the Board Tigran Sargsyan will also be in attendance.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will participate in the expanded format session as invited leaders of non-EAEU states. President Igor Dodon of Moldova is participating by virtue of Moldova’s status of observer in the organization.