13:25, 29 May 2014 | GMT +5
Putin: Signing of EAEU Treaty in Astana is a milestone event
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - President of Russia Vladimir Putin believes that signing of the Treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in Astana is a milestone event.

"Today's meeting is undoubtedly a milestone event. Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are to ink the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty. This document brings our countries to a brand new level of integration at the same time preserving their national sovereignty," Vladimir Putin said at the top-level meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Astana on Thursday. "It is quite symbolic that the signing ceremony will take place in Kazakhstan's capital because it was Nursultan Nazarbayev who proposed the idea of the Eurasian union during a 1994 speech at the Moscow State University," the Russian president stressed.