Belarus and Kazakhstan make way to the Eurasian Economic Union for Russia

The two countries are to ratify treaty on Eurasian Economic Union after Russia.

Russia's State Duma has ratified the treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union (EES) at the session on September 26.

Russian lawmakers unanimously supported the treaty, calling it "historic," RFE/RL informs.

After being ratified by the lower house, the treaty will be sent to the Federation Council approval next week, ITAR-TASS quotes Leonid Slutsky, Chairman the State Duma's Committee on Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Ties with Compatriots, saying so.

According to the official, ratification in Kazakhstan's lower house of parliament, the Majlis, is scheduled for October 1, and in Belarus’ House of Representatives of the National Assembly for October 7.

The ratifications will be symbolically completed by the meeting of the three countries’ heads of state in Minsk on October 9, Slutsky said.

The Eurasian Economic Union was established on the basis of a customs union Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan in Astana on May 29, and is scheduled to officially start functioning from January 1, 2015.