{"id":38343,"date":"2025-05-28T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=38343"},"modified":"2025-05-28T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:02:51","slug":"eaeu-russia-kazakhstan-belarus-armenia-kyrgyzstan-marks-annual-day-amid-expanding-global-ties-and-trade-talks-with-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=38343","title":{"rendered":"EAEU (Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan) Marks Annual Day Amid Expanding Global Ties and Trade Talks with Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;\">Ashraf AboArafe reports<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>May 29<\/strong> marks the annual celebration of <strong>Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Day<\/strong>, recognizing the achievements and deepening integration of the regional bloc, which includes <strong>five member states: Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Union represents a population of <strong>185.5 million people<\/strong>, with a <strong>GDP of $2.6 trillion<\/strong>, <strong>industrial output of $1.6 trillion<\/strong>, <strong>agricultural output of $132 billion<\/strong>, and <strong>mutual investments totaling $487 billion<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The EAEU has become an <strong>attractive model for international cooperation<\/strong>, signing:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Free trade agreements<\/strong> with <strong>Vietnam, Serbia, and Iran<\/strong>,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A <strong>non-preferential agreement with China<\/strong>,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And <strong>over 80 cooperation memoranda<\/strong> with countries and integration bodies such as the <strong>CIS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN, and the United Nations<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Union currently includes <strong>four observer states<\/strong>: <strong>Iran, Uzbekistan, Cuba, and Moldova<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Notably, the EAEU is engaged in <strong>ongoing negotiations with Egypt<\/strong> to establish a <strong>free trade agreement<\/strong>, with the <strong>sixth round held in Moscow from August 15\u201317, 2023<\/strong>. Egypt is considered a <strong>key economic and trade partner<\/strong>, and the potential agreement would lay the groundwork for expanded cooperation, especially in <strong>investment and access to African markets<\/strong>, with Egypt serving as a <strong>\u201cgateway to Africa\u201d<\/strong> for EAEU companies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf AboArafe reports May 29 marks the annual celebration of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Day, recognizing the achievements and deepening integration of the regional bloc, which includes five member states: Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan. The Union represents a population of 185.5 million people, with a GDP of $2.6 trillion, industrial output of $1.6 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4220,388],"tags":[1907,1695,10303,12001,1517,20581,12019,1625,10311,17343,2575,1872,20582,20583],"class_list":["post-38343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-slide","tag-amid","tag-annual","tag-armenia","tag-belarus","tag-day","tag-eaeu","tag-expanding","tag-global","tag-kazakhstan","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-marks","tag-russia","tag-ties-and","tag-trade-talks-with-egypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38346,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38343\/revisions\/38346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}