18/09/2014 14:14
Leonid Slutsky: Armenia will join EEU on October 9
The parliaments of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia are expected to ratify simultaneously the Agreement on the Establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), the head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Leonid Slutsky was quoted as saying by Interfax.by.
“Other countries will join Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – Armenia will join on October 9, and later also Kyrgyzstan,” Slutsky said at the State Duma sitting on Wednesday.
In his words, the agreements to be ratified under the abovementioned Agreement will become a most serious stumbling block to all those trying to build a unipolar world. There is great likelihood that the ratification will be done simultaneously by the parliaments of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Russia, he said.
As was reported earlier, on September 3 the Eurasian Economic Commission announced that the final version of the agreement on Armenia’s entry into the EEU was ready and sent to the governments of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. Earlier, on September 1, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the government proposal to sign the agreement on Armenia’s entry into the EEU. On August 27 President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said that negotiations would be conducted in Minsk on October 10, during which it is planned to decide the issue of admitting Armenia and Kyrgyzstan into the Eurasian Economic Union.