CIS should focus on finding protection mechanisms and footholds to promote integration
<p> MINSK, Nov 12 - PrimePress. The CIS should focus on finding safeguards and footholds to promote integration. Belarus’ Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko made a statement to this effect at the online session of the Heads of Government Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States on 12 November, the government’s press-service reports. </p> <p> </p> <p> “The CIS and other integration associations should pay special attention to finding safeguards and footholds to promote growth in our region and to boost further integration,” said Golovchenko. He believes that the established free trade zone for goods is of particular importance as it offers favourable conditions for economic growth. </p> <p> </p> <p> “Under the Belarusian chairmanship, the CIS member states keep actively working on the free trade agreement covering services. We hope that the agreement will be signed in the near future. This will give an additional impetus to sustainable economic growth in the interests of the CIS countries given the opportunities offered by the comprehensive free trade zone,” he said. </p> <p> </p> <p> Golovchenko also urged the CIS partners to constantly adapt the commonwealth to the modern realities. He noted that Belarus has recently faced “unprecedented and increasing pressure from the collective West under the pretext of concern for human rights”. “Today we are witnessing the brutal and unabashed closure of traditional markets for a number of our leading enterprises,” said Golovchenko. </p> <p> </p> <p> He said that Belarus had worked out an action plan at the national level to counteract these plans. Furthermore, within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), the heads of state states in October 2021 formed a package of measures to respond to economic pressure from third countries. Golovchenko explained that the document provides for monitoring restrictive measures by third countries, assessing their economic impact on the economies of the EEU member states and the functioning of the EEU single market, holding consultations with the initiators of restrictive measures, and developing support measures for the EEU states against which sanctions are applied. End </p>
2021-11-13
Primepress
CIS should focus on finding protection mechanisms and footholds to promote integration
MINSK, Nov 12 - PrimePress. The CIS should focus on finding safeguards and footholds to promote integration. Belarus’ Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko made a statement to this effect at the online session of the Heads of Government Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States on 12 November, the government’s press-service reports.
“The CIS and other integration associations should pay special attention to finding safeguards and footholds to promote growth in our region and to boost further integration,” said Golovchenko. He believes that the established free trade zone for goods is of particular importance as it offers favourable conditions for economic growth.
“Under the Belarusian chairmanship, the CIS member states keep actively working on the free trade agreement covering services. We hope that the agreement will be signed in the near future. This will give an additional impetus to sustainable economic growth in the interests of the CIS countries given the opportunities offered by the comprehensive free trade zone,” he said.
Golovchenko also urged the CIS partners to constantly adapt the commonwealth to the modern realities. He noted that Belarus has recently faced “unprecedented and increasing pressure from the collective West under the pretext of concern for human rights”. “Today we are witnessing the brutal and unabashed closure of traditional markets for a number of our leading enterprises,” said Golovchenko.
He said that Belarus had worked out an action plan at the national level to counteract these plans. Furthermore, within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), the heads of state states in October 2021 formed a package of measures to respond to economic pressure from third countries. Golovchenko explained that the document provides for monitoring restrictive measures by third countries, assessing their economic impact on the economies of the EEU member states and the functioning of the EEU single market, holding consultations with the initiators of restrictive measures, and developing support measures for the EEU states against which sanctions are applied. End