MOSCOW: Customs offices of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) started to implement the presidents’ instructions on organizing community of close cooperation on banning the export of Ukrainian goods to the Russian Federation from the territory of other countries of the EAEC, Russian First Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexey Likhachev said Wednesday.
“It is important that the presidents [of the EAEC countries — TASS] on Monday [at the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council — TASS] gave the command, and we have already started to implement it on Tuesday — organizing tighter cooperation between the customs services on banning any Ukrainian exports from other territories, whether it is Kazakhstan or Belarus,” he said.
According to Likhachev, a plan of specific actions on consolidating informationn cooperation between customs authorities is already adopted. “In this sense, we see a very great support from our partners in the Eurasian integration,” he said.
He noted that the partners in the CIS and EAEC are “sympathetic” to the intention of Russia to suspend free trade zone agreement with Ukraine from January 1, 2016. “We saw a clear positive reaction of the Belarusian side to this, and more philosophical position of Kazakhstan, positions of Kyrgyzstan and Armenia are rather reserved, but generally on the Russian side,” Likhachev said. He added that this issue was discussed in the CIS platform. “Countries such as Moldova and Azerbaijan are more inclined to consider it as a bilateral format and watch our discussions,” he said.
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