DUSHANBE, June 8, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov today morning departed for Moscow to attend a session of the Interstate Committee of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) that will open there tomorrow, according to presidential press service.

The session at the level of prime ministers aims to consider the Committee’s anticrisis plan for mitigation of effects of the global financial crisis and a number of other issues.

The initial concept of the Eurasian Economic Community was first proposed in October 2000, as a successor to the CIS Customs Union, when Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan signed a treaty on broad economic and trade cooperation.  The organization was formally created with the ratification of that treaty in May 2001.  Uzbekistan joined the group in January 2006 but last year, it quitted the Community.  Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine have observer status at the group.