From:
Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date:
Tue Oct 10 2000 - 10:22:54 EDT
PUTIN HAILS PLANS FOR EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION
ASTANA. Oct 10 (Interfax) -
President Vladimir Putin said that
Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev's proposal to form a Eurasian
union
has not lost its importance.
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan plans to
sign a treaty
transforming their customs union into a Eurasian Economic
Union.
Speaking at the
Lev Gumilev University in the Kazakh capital on
Tuesday,
Putin said the countries of the region must fight terrorism,
the drugs and arms trade, as well as aggressive
nationalism. The states
of the region could bolster their
security within the framework of the
collective security
pact, which "is of an open nature and is not aimed
at
creating any kind of bloc," he said.
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