Armenia to join EEU in 2015: Anna Sysoeva

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS: Armenia may become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union on January 2 2015. Armenpress reports that Anna Sysoeva, the deputy director of the department for cooperation with Customs Union agencies and economic cooperation with CIS countries of Russian Ministry for Economic Development, stated about it at the session on September 29.

“The agreement’s ratification is being done synchronously, but it cannot be done simultaneously and in a day,” she said, adding that Kazakhstan will ratify the agreement on October 2 and Belarus on October 7.

“On the whole we expect that on October 10 when the presidents will meet in Minsk, we will prepare a statement for them to the effect that all the three countries completed the ratification and are ready for the agreement’s taking effect on January 1, 2015,” she noted.

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed the agreement on the Eurasian Economic Union in Astana on May 29. It will take effect on January 1, 2015. The State Duma of Russia ratified the agreement on September 26.