12 June 2004 10:57
Eurasian community to hold session in Kazakh capital 15-18 June
Astana, 12 June: A summit of the Eurasian Economic Community [EAEC; members are Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia and Tajikistan - the former Customs Union] will be held in Astana in the second ten days of June, a press release
circulated by the community's press service says.
"A programme (of the summit. - Interfax-Kazakhstan) will be very rich: a session of the permanent
representatives of the EAEC will be held on 15-16 June; a session of the EAEC Integration Committee will be held on 17
June and a session of the community's highest body, the Interstate Council of the EAEC at the level of heads of
state, will be held on 18 June," the press release says.
Apart from this, an international forum entitled "Eurasian integration: tendencies of modern development and
challenges of globalization " will be opened on 18 June.
At the forthcoming session, the five countries' heads, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Kazakh
President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tajik President
Emomali Rahmonov "will discuss issues aimed at further deepening economic integration in the Eurasian space,
including issues related to control over the implementation of domestic procedures that are necessary to bring
international agreements signed within the framework of the EAEC into effect; cooperation between the community's
states in the energy sector, in particular, the effective development of water and energy resources of Amudarya and
Syrdarya; the creation of a single EAEC tariff basis for railway transportation and a number of other issues", the
press release says.
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma are
invited to attend the session of Interstate Council as observers.
A news conference will be held following the session.
[Passage omitted: Background on EAEC]
[Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency] |
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