ST PETERSBURG, 25 December (BelTA) – The share of national currencies in settlements between the EAEU countries exceeded 90%, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in St. Petersburg on 25 December, BelTA has learned.
The Russian head of state stressed that this figure will only grow “taking into account the joint measures taken by the countries in the financial sector.”
In general, all EAEU countries posted stable economic growth this year, Vladimir Putin noted. Russia’s GDP is expected to increase by 3.5%. The situation is the same in Belarus. Armenia is the leader in the EAEU with a more than 9% GRP growth in January-September. The number of unemployed in the EAEU decreased by 14.2%.
