Grigory Rapota: Armenia and EurAsEC Have No Common Borders

PanARMENIAN.Net - There is an objective cause for Armenia not joining the EurAsEC (Eurasian Economic Community) - absence of common borders with its member countries, EurAsEC Secretary General Grigory Rapota told journalists in Moscow. In his words, for accession free trade regime should be formed and the country has to be integrated with the joint customs union of participating states.



«If we are somehow able to form a free trade regime, there are problems with the customs union. We discussed this issue many times during visits to Armenia and we noted we need to arrange common transport communications,» the EurAsEC Sec. Gen. said. If common transport communications are arranged, this can be considered as common transport space. Rapota reminded that «Armenia's current status of an observer at the EurAsEC apparently does not benefit it much, otherwise it would have become organization member.»



To remind the Treaty on Establishment of the EurAsEC was signed in the Kazakh capital of Astana October 10, 2000 effective in spring 2001. Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan are its members. Armenia acquired observer status since 2003, reports RIA Novosti.