(ANSA) - BELGRADE, AUGUST 21 - Serbia may sign a free trade
agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in autumn,
Russian ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko said
on Twitter, the Tass news agency reported.
"On October 25, an agreement is expected to be signed on a
free trade zone between Serbia and the Eurasian Economic Union,"
the Russian diplomat said. "For Belgrade, the implementation of
the document will mark a completely new stage of presence in
Eurasia, entering a market with a capacity of over 182 million
consumers," Kharchenko wrote, as quoted by Tass. According to
Kharchenko, after the agreement with the Union Serbia "may
become one of the links on the space between the EU and the
EAEU". The step signals "Belgrade's balanced policy, an approach
to conducting international affairs, taking into account its own
national interests."
The Russian news agency recalled that Vyacheslav Volodin,
Speaker of the Duma, previously said that the deal between
Serbia and the EAEU could be signed by the end of 2019, while
"Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for speeding up
the drafting of agreements on the EAEU free trade zones with
Serbia and Singapore."
Currently, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic
and the Russian Federation are members of the Eurasian Economic
Union, established at the end of 2014. (ANSA).
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