Karim Massimov to take part in EurAsEC council

Karim Massimov has arrived to Minsk to take part in the meeting of the EurAsEC interstate council on March 15, Tengrinews.kz correspondent reports. Karim Massimov is expected to meet with his Custom Union counterparts to discuss fully transferring all kinds of control, including transport control, from the inside interstate borders of the Customs Union to the outside borders of the Union. They would also discuss establishing a EurAsEC court and common migration policies of the three countries. The three Custom Union member-countries will take steps to unify passport and visa control in the Customs Union members counties. Experts say that this meeting is a good opportunity to discuss Ukraine’s membership in the Customs Union and Common Economic Space. Innokentiy Adyasov, member of the Analytical Council of the Duma SIC Affair Committee, says that since the beginning of 2011 Ukraine has been demonstrating a heightened interest in the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space. “Kiev keeps considering these projects; it is becoming more interested,” he told RIA Novosti. Part of the negotiations of Ukraine’s ascent into the Customs Union and talks on establishment of the Common Economic Zone have already took place yesterday in Minsk. Following yesterday’s negotiations Russia’s First Vice-Premier Igor Shuvalov said Moscow and Astana are completing the ratification of the agreements to create the Common Economic Space with Belarus by July 1, 2011, Interfax-Kazakhstan reports quoting Igor Shuvalov as saying. “We have discussed the need to ratify the agreements on the Common Economic Space in Kazakhstan and Russia,” Shuvalov said after the meeting. First Vice-Premier of Kazakhstan Umirzak Shukeev added that the yesterday’s meeting of the Customs Union commission also discussed improvement of the legal base to accommodate the Common Economic Space. “We are talking about codification of the legislation. A special group should be created to thoroughly analyze all the agreements that have the status of laws and to systematize the legal base,” he said. Belarus has already ratified all the needed documents related to the Common Economic Space. In his meeting with EurAsEC secretary general Tail Mansurov on March 14 President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko said that “Minsk was awaiting concrete decisions that would move forward the creation of the Common Economic Space between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia,” href="http://www.belta.by" target="_blank"> BELTA reports. President of Belarus is expected to meet Prime-Ministers of Kazakhstan and Russia.