The next sitting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council will take place May 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan, Eurasian Economic Commission Chairman of the Board Tigran Sargsyan said during the ongoing sitting of the structure in St. Petersburg, Russia.
“Unfortunately, the serviceman was found dead,” he said.
The narrow format session was followed by an extended one. The session participants summed up the EAEU annual activities during Russia’s chairmanship, highlighted the key sectors for further deepening the Eurasian integration, such as trade, energy and digital agenda.
In the first ten months of 2018 trade turnover growth between Armenia and EEU countries has amounted 15% against the same period of 2017. In the same time period, export volumes of EEU countries grew more than 22%, while Armenia’s general exports volumes 11,7%.
The policy of the Turkish leader is leading to clashes with almost all its neighboring states, and from this point of view it is important for the Armenian-Turkish relations normalization issue to remain on the political agenda, however it is not a priority with its urgency, Republican MP Armen Ashotyan, who seeks re-election in the December 9 general election, told reporters.
Four on-duty contractual servicemen of the Armenian military have been hit by an avalanche on December 5 in Sisian, a town 217 km southeast of the capital Yerevan.
According to the recent polls conducted in Armenia, 75.7% of voters say they will definitely participate in the December 9 early parliamentary elections, 14.6% say they will rather participate and 5.7% say they will not participate in the elections, Gallup International Association’s Armenia member MPG director Aram Navasardyan told reporters, presenting the results of the surveys conducted from December 1 to 4.
Armenia’s acting foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov agreed to continue the meetings in the future by keeping the existing dynamics based on the results of their December 5 meeting in Milan within the frames of the OSCE ministerial council.
