Putin’s plans for ‘Eurasian Union’ bolstered as Georgia might join as well
The Eurasian Union is Russia's plan to create a new bloc of former Soviet republics in 2015.
One day after Armenia said it will join Russia's Eurasian Union, Georgia's PM has said it might, in due course, do the same.
Speaking on national TV on Wednesday, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, said his government is keeping a close eye on the Eurasian Union and studying its development. He maintained that at this stage they had no position at all.
“But If in perspective we see that it is in our country's strategic interest, then, why not? But at this stage we have no position at all."
The remark caused an instant reaction in the Georgian parliament.
Georgia's foreign minister, Maia Panjikidze defended the Prime Minister saying that the whole world is studying the Eurasian Union project, including the EU. “It is near us, of course we have to know what is going on,” he said.
The Eurasian Union is Russia's plan to create a new bloc of former Soviet republics in 2015.
But Georgia's official line is that it aims to join the EU and Nato instead.
As a first step, it plans to initial a political association and free trade pact with the European Union in November.
