Gohar Barsegyan, Director of the Department of Integration Development of the Eurasian Economic Commission, stated this in her welcoming address to the participants of the IV Conference “Eurasian Studies on Modern China and Eurasia. The event was held on December 2 in Yerevan at the initiative of the China-Eurasia Council of Political and Strategic Studies.
The Director of the EEC Department highlighted the current trends that determine the nature of interaction between the EAEU and China, noting that the Eurasian Economic Union and China play a key role in shaping the geopolitical situation in the world.
Gohar Barseghyan informed about the developed infrastructure of trade and economic cooperation between the EAEU and China, which provides a solid foundation for implementing the concept of the Greater Eurasian Partnership, and further actions to pair the Union with the Chinese initiative “One Belt, One Road” by finding common approaches, compromises and points of mutual strengthening of economies.
As one of the global initiatives, which could be implemented on the Eurasian continent with the Union’s partners in the SCO, primarily with China, the Commission’s representative named the transport and logistics mega-project in Greater Eurasia. This project implies synchronous development of transport corridors and digital transformation of routes, and creation of a unified customs transit system.
Source: site of EEC
