YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS. Eurasian Intergovernmental Council session started in Grodno, Belarus.

Armenpress” reports referring to TASS news agency that Belarus’ First Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Mikhnevich had said earlier that the agenda of the September 8 meeting of the Russian and Belarusian prime ministers, Dmitry Medvedev and Andrei Kobyakov, would include "economic issues, our bilateral agreements, the role of the Union State in these processes." In his words, the draft agreement on the deployment of a Russian air base in Belarus was beyond the agenda. "This subject is not on the agenda," he told TASS.  

As the press service of the Russian government said the agenda includes issues of coordinated industrial policy within the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), measures to ensure macroeconomic and financial stability, to form a common market of services, development of relations with foreign countries and international organizations. 

The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is an international economic integration association of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. The Intergovernmental Council of EEU heads of government is a key governing body of the Union, which is tasked to ensure implementation and control over the realization of the Union treaty and decisions of the Supreme Council of the presidents. The Intergovernmental Council meets as and when necessary, at least once every three months. The previous meeting of the EEU prime ministers was held in late May in Kazakhstan’s Burabai.
A number of bilateral meetings will be held as part of the session.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)​​ members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan and Russia.