Armenia to sign Customs Union accession treaty April 29

"The date of signature has been determined - April 29, but the final results of the talks will become known a day before that," he said, adding that they would be announced at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the level of heads of state in Minsk. "We do not know today whether the talks will be completed by that time or not. We hope they will be concluded," the minister said. He stressed that several issues had yet to be resolved at the talks on waivers. "We are engaged in intensive negotiations because there are differing interests," he added. On September 3, 2013, after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan announced that the "Republic of Armenia will join the Customs Union and will take practical steps to this end and will subsequently participate in forming the Eurasian Economic Union", ITAR-TASS reports. At their summit in Moscow on December 24, 2013, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia approved an accession roadmap, which said that the treaty on Armenia's accession to the Customs Union would be ready by May 2014. Preliminary results of implementation by Armenia of the roadmap for accession to the Customs Union were reported to the presidents of the member states at a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission on March 5, 2014. "Over the two months that have passed since the December summit, and we can say that Armenia has made great headway in implementing the roadmap ahead of schedule. I feel optimistic about the possibility and ability of Armenia to implement the 260-point roadmap and the amount of work to be done before admission," Viktor Khristenko, chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board, said. Details also at