Does Putin want to avoid sanctions through the Eurasian Union?
Vladimir Putin on May 26 Ali Held a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Council
Russia Presidents Vladimir Putin on May 26 Ali He said at a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Council that the five member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) have adopted a package of urgent measures consisting of 30 anti-crisis measures aimed at minimizing the impact of sanctions at the initiative of Russia.
Putin He said that these measures are aimed at supporting the stability of the economies and citizens of these countries.
According to RFE / RL’s Armenian Service, Azatutyun writes that according to Putin, the five member states of the Eurasian Economic Council – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia so far, they have fully met their domestic needs with their own production capacity.
We are talking primarily about food and agricultural products.
It should also be noted that Western sanctions are so far only Russia and Belarus snowwas adopted.
Last month, Kazakh officials said Russia would not be allowed to evade sanctions through Kazakhstan.
Speeches by Lukashenko and Pashkina
Apparently, this is why the issue of Western sanctions was also raised by the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting of the council in video format.
He warned members of the Eurasian Economic Union that the impact of sanctions would be felt by all, as “Belarus and Russia are the largest trading partners of those countries.”
Mr Lukashenko said:
“It simply came to our notice then unit we are obliged to speak from the front. This is obvious, everyone needs it, because if we think about the good of our peoples, this is the only way to preserve our statehood and our union. “
Azatutyun writes that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan avoided using the word “sanctions” in his speech, calling it “the difficulties of the world economy.”
Pashinyan stressed that these difficulties have reached unprecedented scale and deepened in recent months.
The Prime Minister of Armenia is also in full format between Iran and the Council of the Eurasian Economic Union free called for the signing of a trade agreement soon.
Video meeting of the Eurasian Economic Council