Russia supports the ideas of the Eurasian Economic Commission for the Development of Digital Projects. This was stated by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting of the Eurasian Interior Council in an expanded composition.
According to the press service of the Government of the Russian Federation, the meeting participants discussed a wide range of issues of deepening Eurasian economic integration. Particular attention was paid to transport infrastructure, customs and tariff regulation and climatic agenda. According to the results of the event, a number of multilateral documents were signed.
Speaking at the meeting, Mishustin said that the Russian Federation was ready to “provide all kinds of assistance in launching and introducing new advanced technological initiatives.”
“In all states” of the fifth we see the positive dynamics of the main macroeconomic indicators. The moment of creating the union, the volume of mutual trade has grown almost doubled. Agricultural production – by more than a quarter, and industrial – by 20% more. In the current quarter, these are these Two indicators added about 1.5 and 5.5%, respectively, ”said Mishustin.
He noted that according to the results of last year, the gross domestic product of the “Five” increased by 3.8%, overtaking the average world growth rate.
“Cooperation on building a unified transport system of the Union is expanding. Formation of modern Eurasian routes will help ensure the stability of production and logistics chains and accelerate the delivery of goods, simplify the conditions for conducting entrepreneurial activities. We and my colleagues approved a report on the joint work of the modernization of transport infrastructure, which is included In the international corridors “East – West” and “North – South”, – said the Russian prime minister.
In addition, Mishustin separately noted the development of marking in the territory of the Union. “She has already demonstrated her effectiveness to increase the market transparency, combat counterfeit, fakes. It helps to better control the quality and safety of products, its movement, routing,” he said.
According to the prime minister, one of the competitive advantages of the Eurasian Economic Union is “openness to mutually beneficial and equal cooperation with all interested countries.” “I am sure that it is necessary to expand the connections with the CIS, the SCO, ASEAN, BRICS, certain states of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America. Today, the Union has an agreement on free trade with Vietnam and Serbia, as well as trade and economic cooperation with China is being studied by our agreements with Egypt, united by Arab Emirates, Indonesia.
“One of the tasks for the future is to ensure the entry into force of a full -format agreement on free trade with Iran, which was signed in December last year,” he added.