By empty (6/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus will sign in September a concept of a single economic territory of the four nations, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev told reporters on Tuesday. He said a high-level group was working on the draft concept that is likely to be completed this month. The creation of a common economic territory does not substitute the current integration associations, including the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Euro-Asian Economic Community, Nazarbayev said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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