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ACCORDS PREPARED ON COMMON ECONOMIC SPACE OF FOUR CIS STATES
The minister of industry and energy, the Russian president’s special envoy for integration with CIS states, Viktor Khristenko, leads the Russian delegation.
A source in the organizing group of CES, said the participants in the meeting were to approve a list of 35 priority accords.
Experts have confirmed about 20 as yet.
Belarussian Foreign Minister Alexander Mikhnevich told Itar-Tass that the high-level group was sure to approve the whole list of the accords on Friday.
The documents will be sent for review to presidents of the four states who will meet in Astana in September.
Mikhnevich also said that all 85 documents on the formation of the CES were to be drafted and proposed for signing by the end of this year.
About 30 are to be ready by late November.