Work on the creation of a single currency for the Eurasian economic Union was much more complex than it seemed in 2011, also said the Chairman of state Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Slutsky.
VLADIVOSTOK, 9 Nov. The Chairman of the state Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Slutsky said that the work on the creation of a single unit of account for countries of the Eurasian economic Union (EEU) is difficult, but it is, and suggested that the currency can be called Evraz.
In early November, the Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia Artur Javadyan noted that conversations about the transition of the EEU member countries on the single currency is premature. He said that a month ago at the meeting of heads of the Central Bank of the countries of the EAEU Russian and Kazakh side said that by 2025 this issue will not be engaged. The Javadyan said that he and his colleagues in the EEU has discussed this issue and came to the conclusion that the process would require 30-40 years.
“Soon we will have a unified unit of account. Now Central banks continue to work, but it was much more complex than it seemed in 2011. And the factor to the crisis works. But the work goes on, it is necessary. So sooner or later she probably will, ‘ said Slutsky in the program “Posner” on channel one. — To make everything that it to enter very and very difficult.”
The question Vladimir Pozner, will be called the currency, the speaker said, “Look. Maybe Evraz. We’ll discuss”.
AAAS is an international integration economic Union created on the basis of the Customs Union and the common economic space and functioning from January 1 of the current year. Now members of the EEU are Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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