St. Petersburg hosts Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has established its status as one of the self-sufficient centers of the emerging multipolar world, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in a narrow format.

"Cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union, which has firmly established itself as one of the independent and self-sufficient centers of the emerging multipolar world, continues to develop steadily," Putin said.

The Russian leader noted the expansion of mutual trade exchanges and the deepening of cooperative ties between the members of the union.

According to the president, all this brings real benefits to each of the member states and benefits the quality of life and well-being of the people and generally helps ensure economic stability and sustainability of the five countries, which is "especially important in the context of turbulence in the global economy."

He said that Russia highly appreciates the mutually beneficial multifaceted cooperation with its EAEU partners and is sincerely interested in intensifying joint work on the comprehensive development of ties within the union.

"I am convinced that all the colleagues present share this attitude, so I hope that today's meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council will be productive and will allow us to make significant progress on all our issues of mutual interest," Putin said.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Minsk and Moscow are implementing all agreements, there are practically no questions.

"We are implementing all agreements, starting from military-technical, military, defense cooperation to the economy. There are practically no questions here," Lukashenko said.

According to the Belarusian leader, Minsk fully supports the search for new partners from among the states of the global majority, moving to those regions of the world where the EAEU nations are respected and expected.