ArmInfo. On March 21, at the headquarters of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), the Chairman of the EEC Collegium Tigran Sargsyan met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Russian Federation John Huntsman.
Tigran Sargsyan talked about the work of the Commission, the institutes and goals of integration, as well as the urgent tasks facing the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) today. A special emphasis was placed on the issues of trade relations between the EAEU and third countries.
Ambassador John Huntsman and Chairman of the Board of the UNECE Tigran Sargsyan expressed support for the idea of establishing contacts between the relevant US institutions and the Eurasian Economic Commission on issues of mutual interest.
The Eurasian Economic Commission, a permanent supranational regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union, began its work on February 2, 2012. The EEC includes representatives from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Decisions of the Commission are binding for execution in the countries of the Union.
Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission - Tigran Sargsyan. The treaty on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union was signed on May 29, 2014, entered into force on January 1, 2015. The Union ensures the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and labor, the conduct of a coordinated, coordinated or unified policy in various sectors of the economy. The purpose of the Union is to provide conditions for the stable development of the economies of the member states in the interests of raising the standard of living of their people, comprehensive modernization, cooperation and increasing the competitiveness of national economies.