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01 October 2019, 16:46

Plans to appoint Eurasian Economic Commission officials at next EAEU summit in December

YEREVAN, 1 October (BelTA) – The new chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission is supposed to be appointed during the next session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in December, BelTA learned from Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Igor Petrishenko on the sidelines of the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Yerevan on 1 October.

The official said: “The heads of state have agreed that in line with the established tradition the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council will meet in December and will likely make the final decision on the chairperson of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission and respectively the distribution of jobs among the countries.” According to the preliminary agreement, the summit will take place in St Petersburg.

In his words, during the session Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko suggested adopting the Eurasian Economic Union's development strategy for the period till 2025 in December as well. “The proposal met support. The Eurasian Economic Commission had a year to prepare a substantial and specific document,” Igor Petrishenko remarked.

Belarus will take over presidency over the Eurasian Economic Union in February 2020. Simultaneously the country will be able to appoint its own chairperson of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission for four years. Another candidate of Belarus will get a ministerial post in the commission in accordance with the quotas. It is yet unclear who will occupy these positions and for what specifically the Belarusian minister in the Eurasian Economic Commission will be responsible for. At present Belarus is represented on the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission by Industry and Agribusiness Minister Aleksandr Subbotin and Technical Regulation Minister Viktor Nazarenko.

Igor Petrishenko explained that jobs on the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission cannot be assigned to specific countries forever. The option is specified neither by the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty nor by decisions of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. How the jobs are to be rotated has yet to be discussed. “Work on the matter is in progress. It is up to the presidents to decide on that,” he added.

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