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    Putin welcomes Eurasian Economic Community leaders to Moscow summit

    RTR Russia TV, Moscow
    22 Jun 05

    [Presenter] A meeting of the Eurasian Economic Community [EAEC]
    interstate council opened in the Kremlin today. Belarus, Kazakhstan,
    Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan belong to this organization, as well as
    Russia. Armenia is an observer.

    The council has a special role in developing integration processes in
    the post-Soviet area. The leaders of the member countries are focusing
    on the creation of a single economic space and collaboration between
    border services. One of the organization's main tasks, however, is its
    members' accession to the World Trade Organization.

    A meeting of the EAEC leaders is under way right now.

    [Putin] Colleagues, may I welcome you warmly to Moscow. We'll begin
    work in this narrow format. We'll have time to talk about the agenda
    and, off the agenda, to discuss all the issues that are of interest
    from the point of view of developing the organization and, perhaps,
    even bilateral relations.

    Allow me to welcome you all, including Robert Sedrakovich [Kocharyan],
    as an observer, as president, as head of state of an observer country,
    and to hand over to the chairman of the interstate council.

    [Presenter] Leader of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev was therefore
    the first to take the floor. He is chairman of the EAEC interstate
    council.

    At the end of the meeting, the presidents will sign a number of
    documents, including a blueprint for currency cooperation.

    Prior to the EAEC meeting, Vladimir Putin held bilateral
    meetings. With Emomali Rahmonov, the president of Tajikistan, he
    discussed the successfully developing cooperation between our
    countries, above all, in the economic sphere. [Passage omitted]

    Meeting the president of Armenia, Vladimir Putin welcomed Robert
    Kocharyan as an observer of the EAEC interstate council meeting. In
    the Russian leader's view, this will have a positive impact on
    cooperation between Armenia and all the states that belong to the
    organization. They also talked about bilateral relations between
    Russia and Armenia.
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