ST. PETERSBURG. June 19 (Interfax) - The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union will be capable of a higher degree of partnership after the Ukraine conflict is over, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has said.
"People often say, 'Oh well, the world has changed and it will never be the same'. But people tend to forget everything. Certainly, we will remember the tragedy which has happened in Ukraine. Yet, after this is over and we sit down to negotiate we will have a chance to build more partner-like and interlinked relations between the EurAsEC and the European Union than we had before. I believe we can do this," Shuvalov said at a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
"I believe that once this conflict is resolved the leaders of all European nations and the leaders of the Eurasian Union should sit down and agree on a more complex format of partnership because even greater conflicts are possible without it," he added.