Kazakhstan and Belarus have delayed the ratification of the Eurasian agreement – RBC

Kazakhstan and Belarus have delayed the ratification of the Eurasian agreement – RBC

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The State Duma this week may ratify the agreement on the Eurasian Economic Union. Parliaments of Belarus and Kazakhstan are still lagging behind, although the parties agreed on synchronicity.

Eurasian economic union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan must earn from 1 January 2015. To do this, the parliaments of the three countries need to ratify the treaty establishing it.

In July, the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko said that the heads of the parliaments of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed on simultaneous ratification of the treaty. However, Russia will become the first country to ratify the agreement, should the words of the chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and communication compatriots Leonid Slutsky.

On Tuesday evening, he said that on September 26, the State Duma may consider and ratify the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union. Committee on CIS is tentatively scheduled for September 25 consideration of the contract, said Slutsky. The committee will be a head of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Viktor Khristenko, said the deputy. Bill Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made the ratification on September 1st.

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has not yet done this. As reported on Wednesday, RBC Chair of the Standing Committee of the Chamber of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on Foreign Affairs Nikolay Samoseiko, the lower chamber of the Belarusian parliament to ratify the treaty has not yet entered, but may come in the near future.

«Synchronicity – a loose concept,” – said Samoseiko. According to him, if Belarus ratifies a few days or weeks later than the partners, it is also possible to consider a synchronous ratification.

In Kazakh parliament a draft treaty was submitted by the government, “one of these days.” It is taken in the work, but the date of consideration of the relevant committee and the House yet, told RBC spokesman in the office of Majilis of Kazakhstan.

Pauline Khimshiashvili

September 24, 2014

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