YEREVAN, ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has again called today for the soonest creation of a single energy market for the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member counties.
Speaking at an online meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council Pashinyan said creation of the single energy market is not just a fulfillment of a provision of the treaty to establish the EEU, but a condition for the full implementation of the potential of the economic integration within the EEU.
According to the Armenian prime minister, significant progress has been made in the wording of the the future agreement. He said there is also the readiness of the countries to continue working on the disputable issues, which, he added, can be resolved within a reasonable time.
The prime minister stressed that the elimination of obstacles to mutual trade in the EEU is one of the priorities of the union, whose purpose is to ensure the operation of internal markets without exceptions, restrictions and barriers which narrow the freedom of entrepreneurs’ access to the markets of the EEU member states.
Pashinyan said the fulfillment of all relating agreements in this area will strengthen the foundations of the union, while the absence of barriers will increase not only the level of trust of the member states to each other, but also their competitiveness in foreign markets.
Pashinyan called for removing all obstacles to trade, building effective logical chains, and increasing the transit potential of the union, based on the interests of the business communities and the rights of citizens of the member countries.
“I am confident that the effective implementation and development of digital technologies will also contribute to the minimization or complete elimination of trade barriers,” he said.