Session of EurAsEC Interstate Council being held in Minsk

Kazinform, Kazakhstan
June 23 2006

MINSK. June 23, 2006. KAZINFORM /Yernur Akanbai/ Today June 23 Minsk
is hosting session of Interstate Council of Eurasian Economic Community
(EurAsEC).

At first the leaders of EurAsEC countries will convene in restricted
attendance. The Summit under chairmanship of Belarus President
Alexander Lukashenko will be attended by leader of Kazakhstan Nursultan
Nazarbayev, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, his counterpart form
Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev,
leader of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov.

President of Armenia Robert Kocheryan has arrived in Minsk as well.
He is expected to attend the top-level meeting as an observer.

In his speech of welcome A. Lukashenko noted that his country had
always supported and would support integration processes on the
post-Soviet territory.

He stressed, unification of the states into regional economic and
political organizations was an objective process.

~SEurAsEC has everything to be an effective integration structure. 6
member-states of the organization possess vast economic, energy,
transport and human resources. We should learn how to organize our
work on mutually advantageous basis~T, the President of Belarus said.

According to A. Lukashenko, EurAsEC greatly contributed to economic
integration on the territory of CIS. It impeded disintegration in
the region.

In future the organization should become a progressive association
of economically and politically stable states. It will be a reliable
instrument for boosting efficiency of comprehensive cooperation of
member countries of the Community.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress