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18 Sep 2025 EAEU enhances social guarantees for workers On September 18 in Moscow, the 8th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Social Security, Observance of Pension Rights, Medical Care Provision and Professional Activity of Workers of the Eurasian Economic Union countries was held under the chairmanship of Bakhyt Sultanov, Minister in charge of Economy and Financial Policy of the Eurasian Economic Commission. The event was attended by representatives of relevant public authorities and leading international organizations including the WHO, International Organization for Migration, International Association of Pension and Social Funds and the General Confederation of Trade Unions. The main discussion topic was the practical enforcement of the right of citizens to pension provision and access to medical care in the common EAEU labor market. The meeting participants summarized the interim results of implementing the 2019 Agreement on Pension Provision for Workers of the EAEU States. Since January 2021, pensions have been granted and paid to citizens within the Union. For addressing practical issues related to confirming the length of service, the parties reached a compromise in using unified forms. An important step was the work to convert the entire document flow between the authorized authorities to the electronic format, which will significantly accelerate the procedures and increase their transparency. The meeting was presented with the results of monitoring the implementation of the EEC Board's Recommendation aimed at developing economic cooperation in the field of healthcare. The document provides for joint work across three key areas: telemedicine development, provision of high-tech medical care and standardization of medical technologies. "The Recommendation sets clear vectors for practical cooperation of the Union countries in such a sensitive and essential field as economic cooperation in healthcare. It is about making modern medical achievements as accessible as possible for citizens of all the EAEU States," Bakhyt Sultanov, the EEC Minister in charge of Economy and Financial Policy, commented on the document. A separate agenda item was the presentation of the joint analytical report of the EEC and the WHO Regional Office for Europe "Health Issues in the Context of Labor Migration in the EAEU" by Batyr Berdyklychev, Head of the WHO Country Office in the Russian Federation. The study confirms the topicality of problems concerning access of labor migrants to quality medical services and proposes ways to overcome them. "Cooperation with WHO, a leading entity in the UN system, is very useful and contributes to finding opportunities to improve access of workers and their family members to healthcare services. In the context of increasing migration flows these matters remain topical," the EEC Minister noted. The meeting outcomes confirmed the overall readiness of the participating countries to further integrate in the social sphere and create comfortable environment for labor mobility within the EAEU.
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