(AGENPARL) – KREMLIN mer 24 maggio 2023

Other
notable attendees included President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President
of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov,
Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, and Chairman of the Eurasian
Economic Commission Board Mikhail Myasnikovich. The plenary discussion was
moderated by Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

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President
Vladimir Putin’s remarks at the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum

President
of Russia
Vladimir Putin: Mr
Shokhin, friends, ladies and gentlemen.

I am
delighted to welcome you all. I will try to answer the questions posed by our
moderator. I would like to note that the forum we are attending today will now
be convened regularly; my colleagues and I agreed on this in Bishkek in December last year.

The wide
scope of participants present here today – officials, business leaders,
experts, representatives of public organisations from the EAEU and from other
countries – shows that the role of our association is increasing, growing, and this speaks of the rapidly changing world that Mr Shokhin mentioned, the successful development of Eurasian integration and the growing interest that
our organisation creates abroad.

I think the theme of the forum – Eurasian Integration in a Multipolar World – is highly
relevant. It spans the most important issues the Eurasian Union is addressing
today when it comes to creating favourable conditions for the EAEU economies and the development of cooperation throughout Eurasia.

We can see
truly deep and fundamental changes taking place on the global stage. More and more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty,
pursuing an independent domestic and foreign policy, and adhering to their own
development model. All of them are in favour of building a new, more equitable
architecture of international economic relations, striving to constructively
influence world processes, expand the network of partnerships based on mutual
benefit, respect and consideration of each other’s interests.

It sounds a little trivial, or like a cliché, but it is actually happening, in practice, in reality, in real life.

It is
important that the majority of participants in international communication
agree with these approaches – I would like to emphasise this. And these are not
empty words; they really do agree with this approach. We actively cooperate
with major international associations, such as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Cooperation
Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, as well as multilateral organisations
in Latin America and Africa.

And our
country, the Russian Federation, which is hosting this forum today,
certainly shares this approach, and all our partners in the Eurasian Economic
Union also do. We are genuinely interested in honest, productive and pragmatic
interaction.

Everyone –
and I want to emphasise this, directly answering our moderator’s question –
everyone who acts, thinks and does otherwise is damaging the global economy, in fact, shooting themselves in the foot, and the foot of those who are still
forced to obey their dictates.

To be
continued.

Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71198