YEREVAN, May 26. /ARKA/. Ensuring free movement of services across the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is an important part of the Eurasian integration, which can be achieved through liberalization of this area and creation of a single market, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the Eurasian Economic Forum held today via video conference, TASS reported.
According to Pashinyan, the role of the services sector is constantly growing and certain types of services have a significant impact on the competitiveness of goods, production sectors and economies.
"In this regard, the most important task of the Eurasian integration is to ensure free movement of services," he reiterated.
According to Pashinyan, free trade in services "is a kind of indicator of integration." The development of this sector is also conditioned by the development of scientific and technological progress and technological changes in cross-border trade.
Pashinyan also stressed the importance of the telecommunications and information technologies and equal access to them.
"In this context, an important area of cooperation is the consolidation of efforts of the IT communities of the member states for development of high-tech sectors of the economy and intrudtcion of the digital agenda of the Eurasian Economic Union," he said.
Pashinyan added that the development of modern technologies "is of strategic importance for Armenia," as it is one of "the few sectors for the development of which no sea ports or rich subsoil are needed."
"It requires human capital, and this is a resource that Armenia has always stood out for," he said. -0-
