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EURASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK SUGGESTS NEW PROGRAM WITH PARTICIPATION OF ARMENIA
20:13, 5 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS: Eurasian Development Bank's (EDB)
Centre for Integration Studies has published a report titled The
Customs Union and Neighbouring Countries: Models and Instruments
of Mutually Beneficial Partnership. The authors have analyzed the
models and forms of cooperation between the existing integration
organizations, in particular the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur,
and countries that are not their members and/or do not border them.
As Armenpress was informed from the representative of press office of
EDB Yulia Ostrukhova, report analyses cooperation between the EU and
the Balkan countries which is aimed at achieving their full membership
of the EU and with the countries of Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus
(including the EU's Eastern Partnership program) and the Mediterranean
which takes form of a system of partnership and cooperation agreements
and the implementation of plans of actions in the framework of the
European Neighborhood Policy.
"The Customs Union could propose to its current and future
partners various models of interaction and additional instruments of
cooperation," says Vladimir Yasinsky, Managing Director for Research
at EDB. "This is specifically important for the development of foreign
economic ties of the emerging Eurasian Economic Union."
The research reviews possible schemes of cooperation between the
Customs Union/CES and Armenia, Moldova and Tajikistan. The authors
propose to launch a Eurasian Partnership program to foster deeper
integration and multilateral cooperation. This program could be used
to develop both bilateral and multilateral relationships taking into
account the specifics of each partner. These could be structured
based on agreements and joint plans of action (as in the European
Neighborhood Policy) and on the participation in joint programs.
"A flexible and pragmatic approach should be used to develop
relationships between the CES and the countries of the Eurasian
continent. Our report proposes a wide range of approaches to building
economic integration based on international experience in this area,"
says Evgeny Vinokurov, Director of the Centre for Integration Studies.
Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution
founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to
facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic
growth and the expansion of mutual trade and other economic ties in
its member states. EDB's charter capital exceeds US $1.5 billion. The
member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic
of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the
Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.
20:13, 5 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS: Eurasian Development Bank's (EDB)
Centre for Integration Studies has published a report titled The
Customs Union and Neighbouring Countries: Models and Instruments
of Mutually Beneficial Partnership. The authors have analyzed the
models and forms of cooperation between the existing integration
organizations, in particular the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur,
and countries that are not their members and/or do not border them.
As Armenpress was informed from the representative of press office of
EDB Yulia Ostrukhova, report analyses cooperation between the EU and
the Balkan countries which is aimed at achieving their full membership
of the EU and with the countries of Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus
(including the EU's Eastern Partnership program) and the Mediterranean
which takes form of a system of partnership and cooperation agreements
and the implementation of plans of actions in the framework of the
European Neighborhood Policy.
"The Customs Union could propose to its current and future
partners various models of interaction and additional instruments of
cooperation," says Vladimir Yasinsky, Managing Director for Research
at EDB. "This is specifically important for the development of foreign
economic ties of the emerging Eurasian Economic Union."
The research reviews possible schemes of cooperation between the
Customs Union/CES and Armenia, Moldova and Tajikistan. The authors
propose to launch a Eurasian Partnership program to foster deeper
integration and multilateral cooperation. This program could be used
to develop both bilateral and multilateral relationships taking into
account the specifics of each partner. These could be structured
based on agreements and joint plans of action (as in the European
Neighborhood Policy) and on the participation in joint programs.
"A flexible and pragmatic approach should be used to develop
relationships between the CES and the countries of the Eurasian
continent. Our report proposes a wide range of approaches to building
economic integration based on international experience in this area,"
says Evgeny Vinokurov, Director of the Centre for Integration Studies.
Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution
founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to
facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic
growth and the expansion of mutual trade and other economic ties in
its member states. EDB's charter capital exceeds US $1.5 billion. The
member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic
of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the
Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.