From: Abraham Rein (ARein@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 16:37:33 EDT
UZBEK, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTS DENOUNCE NEW EURASIAN ECONOMIC
UNION. President Karimov and his visiting Ukrainian
counterpart, Leonid Kuchma, told journalists in Tashkent on
12 October that the Eurasian Economic Union launched in
Astana three days earlier on the basis of the CIS Customs
Union is "a time bomb" that could destroy the CIS, Interfax
and Reuters reported. Karimov predicted that the new body
will not prove capable of resolving problems that its
predecessor had created. Kuchma, for his part, posed the
question why other CIS members were not invited to join the
new body. The two presidents also signed an agreement on 12
October that will facilitate the return to Ukraine of Crimean
Tatars deported to Central Asia by Stalin in 1944, according
to AP. LF
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