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The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has every opportunity to become one of the strong, independent and self-sufficient poles in the emerging multipolar world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an address to heads of EAEU member states published on the Kremlin’s website on Monday, TASS reported.

The close integration inside the Union "is a worthy response to a number of global problems exacerbated by the pandemic and unlawful sanctions imposed by some countries, such as poverty, climate change and shortage of resources, including the most important ones - food, water and energy," he said.

"It is obvious that the Union has every opportunity to become one of the strong, independent, self-sufficient poles in the emerging multipolar world, of being a center of attraction for all the independent states that share our values and seek to cooperate with the EAEU," Putin emphasized.

Russia took over the chairmanship of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council and the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission on January 1, 2023, the president noted.