Prime ministers of Customs Union member states to meet in Minsk 19 May

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MOSCOW. May 9. KAZINFORM The heads of government of the Customs Union member states Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan will meet in Minsk on 19 May to take part in the 15th session of the EurAsEC Interstate Council (the supreme body of the Customs Union) on the level of prime ministers.

This will be the final session of the Customs Union supreme body before 1 July 2011 when the customs control and other types of state control will be completely relocated to the external border of the Customs Union, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Customs Union Commission.

The participants of the session are set to enact a series of international agreements forming the legal and treaty basis of the Customs Union. They include a protocol on the uniform evaluation of the cost of goods transported across the Customs Union border, protocols on amendments to the agreements on sanitary measures, veterinary and sanitary measures and phyto-sanitary control, as well as the agreement on the single principles and rules of technical regulation.

The heads of state will discuss the agreement on the application of special protective, antidumping and countervailing measures on the single customs territory of the Customs Union, the functioning of the Customs Union within the framework of the multilateral trading system and approaches to the draft agreement on the single rules of export control by the Customs Union member states.

According to BelTA, top on the agenda will also be a declaration on the formation principles of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Besides, the prime ministers will hear out reports on the development of proposals to introduce amendments and addenda to the Treaty on the Customs Union Commission, on the execution of the action plan to establish the Single Economic Space of the three countries and the major results of the operation of the Customs Union and priority tasks for 2011-2012.

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