The second Eurasian Economic Forum was held on 24–25 May in Moscow and was timed to coincide with a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council with the participation of heads of member and observer states of the Eurasian Economic Union. The theme of the Forum was ‘Eurasian Integration in a Multipolar World’. The Forum Business Programme consisted of 35 sessions.
The Forum was attended by more than 2,700 participants and media representatives from 59 countries.
Within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Forum, a session was held: "Innovations and new data sources in the statistics of the EAEU". The session was attended by Batir Irgashev, Head of the Department of Statistics of Foreign Economic Activity and Trade of the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Topics were focused primarily on the most relevant issues concerning integration processes in the Eurasian Economic Union, including the preparation of new long-term planning documents and defining the main areas for cooperation on integration until 2030 and 2045, the development of EAEU cooperation with countries from beyond the CIS, customs regulations, prospects for the market within the EAEU, the digital transformation, and improving mechanisms for international settlement. Events were divided by theme into seven groups: Human Capital, Technology and Cooperation, The EAEU in a Changing World, Eurasian Collectiveness, The EAEU Internal Market, Cooperation in Customs, Competition, and State Procurement, Strategic Section, EAEU Business Council Section,
For reference: The EAEU member states are the Republic of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Russian Federation. The Republic of Uzbekistan, as part of the Eurasian Economic Union, holds the observer status, together with Moldova and Cuba.
On the agenda of the event, the participants discussed the possibilities of using new sources of information and the use of information technologies to improve the processes of collecting, processing and distributing official statistical information.