OREANDA-NEWS. The Russian government approved a draft agreement on a free trade area between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Serbia. The corresponding Cabinet decree of October 7 was published on the official portal of legal information.

"To approve the draft agreement on a free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union and its member states and the Republic of Serbia, submitted by the Ministry of Economic Development and the other interested federal executive bodies and the Serbian side", the document says. It's planned that the agreement will be signed at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.

At the end of August, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Botsan-Kharchenko didn't rule out that an agreement on a free trade zone between the EAEU and Serbia could be signed on October 25. Before that, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for speeding up the preparation of this document. The document regarding certain aspects of signing the agreement on a free trade zone between the EAEU and Serbia was signed at the end of May at the end of the May summit in Nur Sultan.