🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: The multipolar global economic system is opening up opportunities for the Eurasian region to acquire importance in its own right in the context of the objective process of forming the Greater Eurasian Partnership with the participation of the members of the Eurasian Economic Union, #ASEAN, the #SCO and all other countries of our common continent. #EAEU #ASEAN #SCO
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🔹(Excerpt from FM S.Lavrov’s speech at the 46th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the BSEC Member States on June 13, 2023)
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📍FYI: The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is an international economic union and free trade zone comprising countries located in central and northern Asia and Eastern Europe. Member countries include Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
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📈It is estimated that nearly 200 million people live within the member states and that EAEU countries have $5 trillion in combined GDP.