Duma chief praises Eurasian bloc as unique tool of global cooperation

State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin.(RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov)

State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin.(RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov)

The Eurasian Economic Union is a major new geopolitical organization contributing to the further integration of Western Europe and the dynamic economies of the Asia-Pacific region, according to a top Russian parliamentarian.

Those who due to misunderstanding or inherent foolishness
see the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) as a threat only confirm
the fact that a new serious player has appeared in the world that
would probably build the missing bridges
,” State Duma
Chairman Sergey Naryshkin said in a speech at an international
conference in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The Russian politician called for the international community to
stop seeing the EAEU as some fictional threat but instead see it
as a unique chance for the peoples of Europe and Asia and the
World as a whole.

He said that it was wrong to see European and Eurasian
development as two opposing forces. “In historical
perspectives one of them is a part of the other as Europe is a
part of the Eurasian continent. From the very beginning our
nations seek to harmonize the integration processes in the EU and
the EAEU, and in future create a single European space without
divisions from Lisbon to Vladivostok, as foreseen by French
President Charles De Gaulle
,” Naryshkin said.

The State Duma chief added that Eurasian integration was among
the most positive aspects of modern global politics. In the face
of the growing instability in international relations, and
expansion of chaos zones, humanity must concentrate on building a
new secure, stable and polycentric world order, where the centers
of forces would be cooperating rather than opposing each other,
he said.

But before this happens, Western nations continue to wage an
aggressive anti-Russian policy in the form of sanctions,
Naryshkin stated. He called the current sanctions policy a tool
of political and economic pressure and blackmail adding that such
steps were contradicting the WTO rules as well as international
law in general. “I would like to add that the nations who
claim that they have established the rule of law simply have no
right to such behavior, it is uncivilized
.”

At the same conference the State Duma chief said five countries
had already chosen to join the Eurasian Economic Union and 40
more had decided to enter a free trade zone with the bloc. He
also criticized countries like Ukraine in which the government
had decided to associate with the European Union.

Such geopolitical choice is a sovereign right of any state,
of course. But when politicians make decisions they must base
them on positions of all population strata and all regions of
their countries. They must consider all ethnic and cultural
particularities as well as the interests of neighboring
nations
,” Naryshkin told the conference members.

The Eurasian Economic Union is an economic and political bloc
formed in 2014 and uniting Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and
Armenia. The treaty to form it will go into full effect on
January 1, 2015. The overall population of the union is about 171
million people and its gross domestic product is expected to
reach $3 trillion next year.


Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/208239-naryshkin-eurasian-economoc-union/

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