YEREVAN. – Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan received Eurasian Economic Commission Board Member-Minister Timur Suleymanov, who coordinates the economic and financial policy issues of the organization.   

They discussed the working groups’ activities toward the implementation of Armenia’s Customs Union (CU) accession “road map,” informs the Press Office of the Government of Armenia.    

The parties summarized the interim results of the respective activities, and expressed their readiness to continue the consultations toward developing a coordinated approach in a foreseeable future.

The discussions of the working groups are planed to be completed by the end of March.     

Suleymanov thanked the Armenian government for the productive cooperation and for a high level of organization of the working groups’ activities. 

Following the talks that were held on September 3, 2013 in Moscow between Armenian and Russian Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin, Sargsyan had announced that Armenia plans to join the Customs Union and subsequently engage in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union. In December 2013, the “road map” for Armenia’s accession to the Customs Union was adopted. And in January of this year, the Government of Armenia approved the action plan for the implementation of this “road map.” Aside from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan likewise are members in the Customs Union.