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No language discrimination in Eurasian Economic Union — Kazakh president

ASTANA, May 29. /ITAR-TASS/. All agreements within the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will be adopted in the Russian language and further translated into the national languages of other member states, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev told a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Thursday.

“There is no language discrimination in the Eurasian Economic Union,” Nazarbayev said. “All international agreements within the union and legally binding commission decisions will be adopted in Russian and further translated into the parties’ state languages.”

The president added that all decisions of the Eurasian Economic Commission would be adopted by consensus, and the personnel policy of the union’s working bodies would be based on equal representation of parties and competition.

From January 1, 2015, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will switch to a high level of integration envisaging the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union based on the Customs Union, the common economic space and the potential accumulated by the Eurasian Economic Community.