Pashinyan voices Armenia’s readiness to exert efforts necessary for further enhancement economic cooperation in EAEU

The functioning of the EAEU moves forward today on the background of new global challenges which essentially reduce the effects of inter-state integration, Armenia’s Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the session of the Eurasian Inter-Governmental Council in Kazan today.

He said these are restrictions agreed with the pandemic, and the coincided or the follow-up transformation of the whole global economy where the high technologies become more and more in demand.

“The new conditions brought up demand of cooperation in healthcare, education and social sector. The year of 2020 revealed a whole spectrum of new issues the regulation of which demanded decisions relating to sectors like functioning of the domestic market, regulation of export and import of sensitive goods. From the perspective of unlock of integration potential of the Union the inter-state cosmos program should be viewed,” he said, adding that the result of the coherent work in this direction will not take long.

The acting PM also stressed that for the creation of united full market of products without the agreed policy in this direction is unworkable.

He also expressed interest in raising the competitiveness of goods produced in the EAEU both in domestic and external markets.

Pashinyan expressed readiness and determination of the Armenian side to exert all the efforts necessary for the further enhancement of the sectors of economic cooperation and consistent disclosure of the integration potential of the Union.