Moscow to host International Conference on Eurasian Integration
The participants of the forum will discuss a wide range of issues related to economic integration in the Eurasian space, and prospects of expanding the Customs Union and the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Partaking in the EDB 8th conference will be heads of the Eurasian Economic Commission, prominent scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries, representatives of the EDB member states, international organizations, media.
Attending the ceremony of signing of the memorandum of cooperation between the Eurasian Development Bank and the Eurasian Economic Commission will be Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Development Bank Igor Finogenov and Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Viktor Khristenko.
Special attention at the forum will be on coordination of macroeconomic policies, cooperation prospects between SES member states and Ukraine, expansion of the Customs Union and the Single Economic Space. Plenary sessions and sections will emphasize the issues of mutual investment in the CIS, approaches to macroeconomic forecasting in Eurasian integration, infrastructure aspects of integration, integration of commodity markets, the single labor market, public attitude to integration, cross-border cooperation.
According to organizers, the participants of the conference will also touch upon the issues related to the innovation model of economic development, strengthening of the industrial and technological potential of the EDB member states, energy and resource saving, modernization and technical upgrade, accelerated development of transport, energy and information infrastructure. Intensification of both the fundamental and applied research as well as developments in various economic and scientific areas will make an important contribution to speeding up Eurasian integration.
“EDB science-to-practice conferences have become an efficient communicative and information instrument for financial institutions, state bodies, economic operators of the bank’s member states. Such discussions and elaborated recommendations promote formation of new approaches to strengthening the economic activity of the bank, formation of its investment portfolio. The significance of EDB conferences has been constantly increasing due to the functioning and expansion of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, development of the Single Economic Space and the Eurasian Economic Union,” the bank noted.
The Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with a view to assisting the development of market economies of the participating states while facilitating their sustainable economic growth and expanding their mutual trade and economic ties. The EDB’s authorized capital exceeds $1.5 billion. The participating states are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.