Lukashenko: EEU needs to be improved
MINSK. March 24 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko believes the member-states of the Eurasian Economic Community need to work to make the organization better.
"We have no way back. We need to improve the Eurasian Economic Union and create a union that would not be worse than the EU. Otherwise, we would look like windbags to our people," Belarusian state media quoted Lukashenko as saying at a meeting with EEU Board Chairman Tigran Sargsyan.
The EEU has achieved quite a few successes, Lukashenko said. "But there are also too many shortcomings and unsolved problems, which need to be solved for objective and subjective reasons. Therefore, everyone will have to strain themselves, from the EEU commission to presidents and prime ministers, so as to bring the Eurasian Economic Union to a high level of functioning," he said.
"Life will prompt us to move very quickly in making our union well-established, and in pursuing the formula of which we have always said, so that we could have true freedom within our national borders, including freedom of markets, capital, and the workforce, and so that our national problems would not hamper the development of our common interests and the resolution of the issues facing us," Lukashenko said.