Belarus PM reviews EAEU summit outcomes

     Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko summed up the results of the recent meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Kyrgyzstan in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel. According to him, Belarus sees the outcomes of the event as very positive:

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This time we did not have difficult issues and differing positions. But there were many topics on which we needed to align our approaches. Among them was the removal of barriers to access the Kazakhstan market of agricultural machinery. We found a compromise on this issue. We made a decision to accelerate setting up the Eurasian reinsurance organization, which I see as a win of Belarus. For us, this is a beneficial and necessary step in the face of the sanctions which also apply to reinsurance services for Belarusian insurers. We agreed that we would step up work on this front. In the first quarter of next year, the Eurasian Economic Commission will submit an international treaty on this organization.