CIS MEMBER STATES SIGNED ENERGETIC AGREEMENT
Support A1+!The 31st session of the Electric Energy Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States’ (CIS) was over in Yerevan.
During the meeting an agreement on forming joint market of electric energy was signed. The agreement was signed by Russian Federation, Armenia, Belarus, Ghazakh, Tajikistan and Kirgizia. Other CIS member states did not have any official objections to the agreement, though they did not sign it today.
The representatives of energetic sphere of the CIS countries, headed by Anatoly Chubayes, the head of the Electric Energy Council of CIS, met the journalists. Chugayes considered the agreement very important and informed that one-tenth of the issues discussed during the session were of technical character. According to Chubayes, the agreement on the joint market of electric energy sets up open, transparent long term legislative field of cooperation.
Answering the questions of journalists, whether the document would be an obstacle for other partners, for example, for the development of cooperation with Iran in this field, Areg Galstyan, the RA Deputy Energy Minister said: “No obstacle”. He considers that a very important step was accomplished which is only the beginning. In the coming 12 months each state that joined the agreement will work out its own program for putting the document into force.
