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SEEC approved new composition of Eurasian Economic Commission's Board
At the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council held on December 25 in St. Petersburg, the Heads of State of the Eurasian Economic Union approved the new composition of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board, which will start working on February 1, 2024.
Bakytzhan Sagintaev, representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was approved as Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission. He will start his work on February 1, 2024.
The following were approved as members of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board:
- Sergei Glazyev, EEC Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics;
- Bakhyt Sultanov, EEC Minister in charge of Economy and Financial Policy;
- Goar Barseghyan, EEC Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture;
- Andrey Slepnev, EEC Minister in charge of Trade;
- Valentin Tataritsky, EEC Minister in charge of Technical Regulation;
- Eldar Alisherov, EEC Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation;
- Arzybek Kozhoshev, EEC Minister in charge of Energy and Infrastructure;
- Maksim Ermolovich, EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation;
- Varos Simonyan, EEC Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Informatization, Information and Communication Technologies.
In accordance with the SEEC decision, during the year starting from January 1, 2024 the Republic of Armenia will preside over the EAEU governing bodies: the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, and the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission. According to the Treaty on the EAEU, the chair of these bodies rotates annually on a scheduled basis following the Russian alphabetical order. In the departing 2023, all the institutions have been presided over by the Russian Federation and its representatives.
