Issue on developing EEC-China economic cooperation raised during EEC session

ArmInfo. During the regular intergovernmental session of Eurasian Economic Union (EEC), which Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan also attended, the issue on developing economic cooperation between EEC and China, as well as adopting new format for EEC-China dialog was raised, the press-service of the government informs.

According to the source, the Prime Ministers discussed a wide range of issues of EEC agenda and signed a number of decisions related to working procedures at the end of the meeting.

The source also informs that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev offered Armenian Prime Minister to hold the regular intergovernmental session of EEC in Yerevan on May 20.

To note, Armenia became a full member of the EEU on Jan 2, 2015. The agreement on Armenia's accession to the EEU was signed in Minsk on 10 October 2014. The Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union takes into account the principles of sovereign equality of the parties and their territorial integrity, as well as the national interests of the EEU member states. The treaty implies freedom of movement of commodities, services, capital and workforce, implementation of coordinated or single policy in economic sectors stipulated by the treaty and international agreements within the EEU.