Azerbaijan may become shareholder of Eurasian Development Bank

  19 October 2016    Read: 1609
Azerbaijan may become shareholder of Eurasian Development Bank
More 12 countries are candidate for membership to the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Dmitriy Pankin, Chairman of the EDB Management Board told Izvestisiya newspaper.
According to him, the potential shareholders include Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Egypt, Israel, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.

“We’d like relevant licence on increase of number of the participants of the EDB financial system to be obtained by the end of 2017. Most likely, we can complete all formal procedures in 2018”, Pankin said.

He said the factors such as commercial and investment activity have been taken into account while selecting the candidates.

EDB was established by Russia and Kazakhstan in 2006. The authorized capital makes up $7 billion. Shareholders are: Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

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