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Eurasian Economic Union, Iran to sign free trade zone agreement within months

MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. The agreement on creation of a free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union and Iran may be signed within months, Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov said Monday.

“The talks on drafting a temporary agreement on creation of an EAEU-Iran free trade zone have been finalized. The plan is to sign it within months,” he said.

Armenia’s deputy minister of economic development and investment Hovhannes Azizyan said at end-March that the agreement of a free trade zone between the EAEU and Iran might be signed by the end of May for a period of three years.