Sochi to host Eurasian Intergovernmental Council meeting today

12 августа 2016

By Daria Belousova-Petrovskaya: Today’s Eurasian Intergovernmental Council meeting in Sochi will be attended by Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov.

The Prime Ministers of Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia are scheduled to discuss important issues of the international organisation, including the draft treaty on the EAEU Customs Code, which has been jointly prepared by the public authorities and businesses of the five Eurasian Union countries. It deals with electronic declaration and the use of the one stop principle in customs operations. The meeting will also consider forming common markets, in particular, medicine and oil and gas markets.

The next Intergovernmental Commission meeting will take place in the autumn in Minsk.