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Fri, 03/27/2015 - 14:31
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Belarus says ready to help Eurasian economic bloc’s rapprochement with EU

MINSK, March 27. /TASS/. Belarus is ready to help create closer ties between the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the European Union, the country’s first deputy foreign minister told an international conference, the Minsk Dialogue, on Friday. "We are consciously and responsibly considering the prospects of rapprochement between the recently created EEU and the EU and are ready to make the maximum contribution to this process," Alexander Mikhnevich said. The official stressed that amid globalization Belarus needs to participate in the regional economic integration process to increase the stability of its national economy. "Our common goal is to avoid the confrontation between integrations and the emergence of new division lines, and we must set the potential of the constructive cooperation against this," he said. Belarus has always sought to build a mutually beneficial partnership both with the East and the West rather than to choose between them, Mikhnevich said. "While building allied relations with Russia, we are by no means doing this at the expense of cooperation with the West and vice versa," he said. The diplomat said the development of the trade and economic ties with Brussels is no way in conflict with the dynamics of Minsk's close cooperation with the East. "They are logic and fully supplemented by more large-scale contacts with the leading countries of America, Asia and Africa without compromising traditional partners," he said. The Eurasian Economic Union, which came into effect on January 1, 2015, brings together Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia. Later this year, Kyrgyzstan is expected to join the bloc. Read more

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