Eurasian Union is project open to other partners - Putin.

MOSCOW, October 4 (Itar-Tass) - The Eurasian Union "is an open
project, and we welcome the accession of other partners, first of all
countries of the Commonwealth (of Independent States)," Russian Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin wrote in an article that will be published in the
Izvestia daily on Tuesday.
However, "we are not going to hurry or push anyone," he said. "This
must be a sovereign decision of the state, dictated by its own long-term
national interests," Putin stressed.
"Some of our neighbours explain their unwillingness to participate in
integration processes in the post-Soviet space, saying that this is
allegedly at variance with their European choice," the prime minister
said, adding that it is erroneous.
"We are not going to cut ourselves off from anyone or stand against
anyone," he stressed. According to Putin, "the Eurasian Union will be
built on universal integration principles as an inalienable part of
Greater Europe, united by common values of freedom, democracy and market
laws".
Putin reminded the readers that "back in 2003, Russia and the European
Union agreed on the formation of a common economic space, coordination of
rules of economic activity without setting up supra-national structures".
In developing this idea, "we offered Europeans to think together about
setting up a harmonious community of economies from Lisbon to Vladivostok,
about a zone of free trade and even more advanced forms of integration,
about the development of coordinated policy in the sphere of industry,
technologies, power engineering, education and science, and finally about
the removal of visa barriers," the prime minister stressed.
"These offers did not hang in the air - they are discussed in detail
by European colleagues," he added. Now, "the Customs Union and in the
future the Eurasian Union will become participants in a dialogue with the
European Union," he said.
"Thus, membership in the Eurasian Union, apart from direct economic
benefits, will enable its members to integrate into Europe faster and from
a much stronger position," he emphasized.