EurAsEC integration process to be discussed in Belarus.

MINSK, November 26 (Itar-Tass) - Integration processes in the
territory of the Eurasian Economic Community will be discussed in the
Belarusian capital on Thursday as the Integration Committee of the
Eurasian Economic Community and the Customs Union Commission will hold
their regular meetings.
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has said that there are 17 items on
the agenda. They include the creation of the Customs Union and the single
economic space within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community, a
draft protocol to finish the formation of the Community's free trade zone,
a draft concept on the creation of the Eurasian innovative system and an
inter-state databank on working migrants. The draft agenda also includes
cooperation in education, transport and within the framework of the
Council for Culture set up under the Integration Committee of the Eurasian
Economic Community.
More than a dozen issues have been included in the draft of the agenda
of the Customs Union Commission. The participants will discuss draft
agreements for establishing and applying in the Customs Union the
procedures of paying and distributing import customs duties; for creating
the institution of tax representatives; for the functioning and
development of an integrated information system of foreign and reciprocal
trade within the Customs union.
A number of issues will dwell on foreign trade in view of plans of
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia to launch the activities of the Customs
Union. The talk is about statistics, the introduction of a single system
of bans and restrictions and step-by-step removal of restrictive measures
of economic nature in reciprocal trade by countries-members of the Customs
Union.
Besides, the sides will discuss draft resolutions of the Inter-State
Council of the Eurasian Economic Community on technical regulation,
application of sanitary, veterinary and phyto-sanitary measures and the
implementation of an action plan for the formation of the customs union
within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community.
On November 27, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan,
will participate in a meeting of the Inter-State Council of the Eurasian
Economic Community in Minsk.
Nazarbayev arrived in Minsk late on November 25 for a two-day
official visit to meet his counterpart, Belarusian President Alexander
Lukashenko.
President Lukashenko believes that the two countries will soon reach a
qualitatively new level in trade and economic relations by implementing
more than 30 joint projects worth three billion dollars in the near future.
Ahead of his visit to Belarus President Nazarbayev praised the prime
ministers and experts in the two countries for their good work.
"We will cooperate in the agrarian sector, in building agricultural
machines, machine tool industry and chemistry. Oil refining is also
interesting to us," the president of Kazakhstan stressed.
He thanked Belarus that was the first to support Kazakhstan's
chairmanship at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE). It starts on January 1, 2010.
Nazarbayev said that the crisis had prompted the need to solve
problems within the CIS framework. He is sure that a future Customs Union
of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia will remove all the difficulties
hindering the development of trade and economic relations.

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