From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 11:31:26 EST
KAZAKHSTAN, UKRAINE DISCUSS EXPANDING ECONOMIC, OIL
COOPERATION
Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko met
in Astana on 10-11 March with his Kazakh counterpart,
Qasymzhomart Toqaev, and President Nursultan Nazarbaev,
Russian agencies reported. Their talks focused on increasing
the amount of crude oil Kazakhstan ships to Ukraine for
refining, the prospects for exporting Kazakhstan's oil to
international markets via Ukraine, and Kazakhstan's desire to
privatize the Kherson oil refinery, in which Kazakhstan has a
majority stake. On 11 March, representatives of the two
countries' governments signed a protocol on cooperation in
the nuclear fuel industry. LF
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