The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) should become a powerful pole of the emerging multipolar world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an address to the EAEU heads of state and government posted to the President’s website on Jan. 23. (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70380 )
“Our close integration is a worthy response to a number of global problems exacerbated by the pandemic and unlawful sanctions imposed by some countries, such as poverty, climate change and shortage of resources, including the most important ones—food, water and energy. It is obvious that the Union has every opportunity to become one of the strong, independent, self-sufficient poles in the emerging multipolar world, of being a center of attraction for all the independent states that share our values and seek to cooperate with the EAEU,” Putin said.
“Obviously, developing the technological potential of EAEU member states, attaining genuine independence and self-sufficiency in this sphere should become one of the most important strategic priorities of our joint work. We propose that we pool efforts for developing and introducing advanced scientific and technological solutions in such leading economic sectors as the automotive and chemical industries, transport engineering, microelectronics, the aerospace industry, shipbuilding, pharmaceuticals, digital eco-systems, alternative energy, agricultural equipment manufacture, bioengineering and seed production….
