Uzbekistan will get the observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in December, said Mikhail Anisimov, the director at a department of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Tuesday.
“In addition, as you know, in December, Uzbekistan will be officially granted observer status in the Eurasian Economic Union. We hope that cooperation with Uzbekistan will certainly receive a new impetus and development in the new format of the “Eurasian Five”,” he said, speaking at the online conference Industrial Dialogue Uzbekistan-Russia: New Projects and Partnerships.
On November 17, the First Deputy Chairman of the Uzbek Senate Sodiq Safoev, as part of his speech at the Washington Atlantic Council, said that Uzbekistan's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) causes less controversy in society than joining the Eurasian Economic Union. In this regard, the latter issue remains open.
