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Medvedev satisfied with interstate integration on post-Soviet space
Published: 28 November, 2009, 00:01
Edited: 29 December, 2009, 05:49
L to R: Presidents Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan, Serzh Sarkisian of Armenia, Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus at a Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) meeting in Minsk on November 27, 2009 (AFP Photo / Viktor Drachev)
TAGS: Meeting, CIS, Russia, Politics, Belarus, Central Asia
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev highly appreciated the results of the summit of the Inter-State Council of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) and the Customs Union summit, both of which he attended.
Both summits were held in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on November 27.
Medvedev met with the Presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan to sign an agreement on the Customs Union between the three ex-Soviet nations and approve a customs union due to come into effect at the start of 2010.
“The Customs Union is a real economic institution in fact, not in word,” Medvedev told Interfax news agency.
Medvedev has called the Customs Union "a prelude to the Common Economic Space enabling us to conduct joint policy, overcome economic obstacles, promote investment and create uniform rules.”
The Russian President believes that “the Common Economic Space is a prototype of deeply integrated economies resembling the EU.”
The Presidents of the EurAsEC member countries – Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan – have discussed every aspect of integration processes within the community.
The same day Medvedev held a bilateral meeting with Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, in which they discussed Kyrgyzstan possibly joining the Customs Union.
The Russian President also visited the new Russian Embassy in the Belarusian capital.
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This is an extension to my comment from the tenth anniversary of the Russia-Belarus Union State, I'am so happy that the biggest of all the Nation's to be associated with the New Union State when Kazakhstan Joins the Customs Union for Freedom Of Movement within these three very old allies. Now with the emergence of Russia,Belarus and Kazakhstan within days to become one on the January 1'st 2010. I find this sort of news highly interesting as we now see a new form of Union being born and gradually being cultivated and made to give Europe competition economically and for trading. With this new Customs Union there are others that will join this elite few and that is Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan too. I hope the single currency will be the "Union Rouble" and I hope soon there will be an officially designed new flag and Coat of arms and an "All New" Union State National Anthem in the forthcoming months or years.