All Eurasian Economic Union Treaty goals to be reached by 2025
Mikhail Myasnikovich. Photo courtesy of the Eurasian Economic Commission
MOSCOW, 4 June (BelTA) – All the goals of the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty are supposed to be reached by 2025. Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich made the statement at a conference held as part of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on 4 June to discuss “The progress and challenges of integration within the EAEU and the new development paradigm”, BelTA has learned.
Mikhail Myasnikovich said that all the goals specified by the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty of 2014 are supposed to be reached by 2025. In his words, the strategic directions of Eurasian integration for the period till 2025 that the EAEU presidents approved in late 2020 are geared towards accomplishing this goal.
This year, the forum features many online speakers due to the pandemic, with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
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