Tigran Sargsyan and Nazarbayev Discuss Development Issues of EAEU

Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Tigran Sargsyan met with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana. “Armenpress” reports, citing the press service of the President of Kazakhstan, issues of the development of the EAEU, common strategy of establishing economic relations with the third countries, deepening of economic relations, as well as the common strategy of the member states in global markets under the existing conditions were discussed at the meeting.

Nazarbayev mentioned that the benefits deriving from the establishment and activities of the Eurasian Economic Union cause no doubts. He mentioned that Tigran Sargsyan’s chairmanship over the EEC Board has coincided with great global economic hardships and it is not easy to find new ways for growth under those conditions.

“But all those hardships are not linked with the works of the Eurasian Economic Union. I have no doubts over the usefulness of our integration”, Nazabayev announced. He mentioned that today there are many countries aspiring to become EAEU member or set a free trade zone with it.

“The crisis is a temporary phenomenon but the overall capacity of our economies and the size of the market remains unchanged”, Nazarbayev said.

Tigran Sargsyan mentioned that Nazarbayev’s position on the common strategy of the development of the Union is of fundamental importance as personally his initiatives and ideas serve as basis of the established united Eurasian area.