Damascus, SANA – Economy and Foreign Trade Minister Humam al-Jazaeri expressed Syria’s desire to accede to the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) given its importance in achieving joint benefit for all state members.<\/p>\n
The Minister was speaking during a meeting on Tuesday with Armenian Ambassador in Damascus Arshak Poladian, whose country became an ECU member early this year.<\/p>\n
Eurasian Customs Union came into existence on January 1, 2010 as the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, only to be later expanded to include Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n
Al-Jazaeri noted that Syria’s accession to the Union would help open up promising markets for the Syrian products and establish investment networking with friendly\u00a0countries.<\/p>\n
Talks between the Minister and the Armenian Ambassador focused mainly on ways to further cement bilateral economic and trade cooperation relations, a step al-Jazaeri said should not be limited to only boosting the trade exchange between the two sides.<\/p>\n
The development of cooperation, he added, should be expanded towards starting investment projects in Syria, with well-qualified expertise and workforce being employed.<\/p>\n
The Minister recognized in this context the effective role of the Syrian-Armenian Business Council in this development, for whom al-Jazaeri pledged the Ministry’s all necessary support.<\/p>\n
He called for establishing an intensive work plan at a governmental level for the coming period to strengthen communication and develop new means to upgrade bilateral relations between Syria and Armenia.<\/p>\n
On his part, the Armenian Ambassador referred to a slower pace of progress in the Syrian-Armenian relations over the past period under the exceptional circumstances taking place in Syria.<\/p>\n
Yet, Poladian said, many of Armenians in Syria have not left and are continuing work and production and now look positively at the improving circumstances.<\/p>\n
Manar al-Frieh\/Haifa Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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