Russia welcomes Uzbekistan’s entry in the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC), Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the EurAsEC Interstate Council on Wednesday. Putin called this meeting landmark, as Uzbekistan’s entry in the EurAsEC and the integration of the Central Asian Cooperation Organisation in the EurAsEC were considered at the meeting. Putin noted that the aims and tasks of these organisations are mainly identical. “The combining of the potentials of two regional organisations will have a serious positive effect,” Putin believes. “The EurAsEC integration model that we have chosen actually proves its efficiency and brings the real profit to all partakers,” Vladimir Putin pointed out. He urged to keep the pace in the formation of the EurAsEC common economic space and the common financial market. “This policy opens new vistas for an upswing of national economies, and therefore works for the benefit and interests of people in our countries,” the Russian president indicated. (Itar-tass)