CIS countries signed 20 multilateral treaties in 2013
ST- PETERSBURG. January 13. KAZINFORM - In 2013 the CIS countries have signed 20 multilateral treaties, the Heads of states and Governments of the Commonwealth have adopted more than 50 decisions to promote all areas of international cooperation, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports on the results of Russia's foreign policy in 2013.
The Ministry also informs that in order to solve the problem of the formation by January 1, 2015 the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) there has being systematically implemented the codification of the legal framework of the Customs Union (CU) and the Common Economic Space (CES) of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. In order to ensure the free movement of goods, services, capital and labor within the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space, heads of "troika" states approved the procedure for phased elimination of existing barriers of national entrepreneurs' access to the markets of the countries. There were managed activities on the practical aspects of Armenia and Kyrgyzstan accession to the Customs Union.
In 2013 the juridical base of relations between Russia and Belarus has been extended to new areas of regulation, such as the sharing of the GLONASS system, the international information security and military-technical cooperation. There have been further developed bilateral investment projects, the largest of which 'the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant' was launched in November 17, 2013.
At the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State (Moscow, December 25, 2013) there were signed the following documentation: the program of concerted actions in the field of foreign policy, 2014-2015, the agreement on enhancing cooperation in the fight against corruption, the protocol on collaboration in the field of international information security and the convention on the program of military-technical partnership up to 2020.
Russian Foreign Ministry also notes that on November 11, 2013 a new basic agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan on good-neighborliness and alliance in the XXI century was signed.