Armenian Prime Minister to participate in intergovernmental council of EEU meeting in Astana

ArmInfo. The Armenian delegation headed by Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan will depart on August 13 with a working visit to Kazakhstan to attend the meeting of the intergovernmental council of the Eurasian Economic Union. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian government.

To note, according to the Russian government website, on August 14, a meeting of the Eurasian intergovernmental council will be held in Astana with the participation of the heads of government of Kazakhstan, Russia, Armenia, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. The meeting will discuss key tasks to expand integration cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. Priority attention will be given to the development of sectoral cooperation, including the formation of a single electricity market and measures to implement a coordinated transport policy. Also, the prime ministers of the EEU countries will present a report on joint work on the promotion of the "digital agenda" of the union. It is planned to discuss the preparation of agreements on preferential trade regimes with international partners of the Union and other topics of mutual interest.