Economic Relations between Kazakhstan and Russia

Ñòðàíèöà: 18/33

— The Council of EAU Heads of State and Heads of Government - the highest organ of EAU political leadership. Each member state chairs the EAU for a period of six months in rotation according to the Cyrillic alphabet.

— The highest consultative and advisory body is the EAU Parliament. The Parliament is formed by delegating deputies of the member states' parliaments on the basis of equal represen­tation of each member country or through direct elections. Decisions of the EAU Parliament come into force after their ratification by the parliaments of the EAU states. Ratification must be effected within the period of one month.

— The main area of the activity of the EAU Parliament is coordination of the member countries' legislation to insure the development of a unified economic space, protection of the social rights and interests of individuals and of mutual respect for state sovereignty and civil rights within EAU states.

— The EAU Parliament creates a common legal basis to regulate the relations between the member countries' econom­ic agents.

— The Council of EAU Foreign Ministers, to coordinate the member countries' foreign-policy activities.

— The Inter-state Executive Committee of the EAU - an executive and supervisory body functioning on a permanent basis. The EAU heads of state appoints the head of the Executive Committee -a representative of the member countries — for a period defined by the heads. The Executive Committee's bodies are formed to include representatives of all the countries.

The EAU as represented by its Executive Committee must receive observer status in a number of major international or­ganizations, such as:

— The EAU Executive Committee's Information Bureau. The member countries must assume a special obligation or law not to permit unfriendly statements about the treaty's member states, which may damage relations between them.

— The Council for Education, Culture, and Science. The formation of coordinated policy on education, promotion of cultural and scientific cooperation and exchange, and joint activity on compiling textbooks and manuals.

— To achieve a deeper coordination and effectiveness of the activities of the EAU countries, it is deemed advisable to set up in each of them a State Committee (or Ministry) for EAU Affairs.

— Regular meetings and consultations on health servic­es, education, labor, employment, culture, combating crime, and so on, by ministers of EAU countries.

Encouraging the activities of non-governmental orga­nizations in various areas of cooperation in accordance with EAU member countries' national legislation.

— The Russian language is the official EAU language, functioning side by side with the languages of legislation in the member nations.

— Citizenship. Free movement of citizens within EAU borders requires coordination of external visa policy with re­gard to third nations. On changing the country of residence within the EAU, an individual automatically receives the oth­er country's membership.

— One of the cities at the juncture of Europe and Asia, such as Kazan or Samara, might be proposed as the capital of the EAU.

In order to create a unified economic space within the EAU framework, it is proposed to establish a number of supra­national coordinating structures:

— A commission on the economy under the Council of EAU Heads of State to work out the main directions of eco­nomic reform within the EAU framework; the commission takes into consideration the interests of the national states and offers its proposals for endorsement by the Council of the EAU Heads of State;

— A commission on the raw materials of the EAU export­er countries to coordinate and endorse the prices and quotas for exported raw materials and fuel and energy resources, an appropriate inter-state agreement to be signed by the member countries; coordination of policy in the mining and sale of gold and other precious metals is to be envisaged;

— A fund for economic and technological cooperation formed with EAU members' contributions. The fund will fi­nance promising science-intensive economic, scientific, and technological programs and render assistance in the solution of a wide range of problems, including legal, tax, financial, and ecological issues;

— A commission on inter-state financial-industrial groups and joint ventures; — an EAU international investment bank;

— An inter-state EAU court of arbitration on economic problems, to resolve conflicts on a legal basis and to impose sanctions;

— A commission on the introduction of a clearance mon­etary unit (transfer ruble).

Ðåôåðàò îïóáëèêîâàí: 18/07/2008