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TIME HAS COME TO START THINKING ABOUT FORMING CURRENCY UNION, PUTIN SAYS
YEREVAN, March 20. / ARKA /. Russian president Vladimir Putin
proposed on Friday creating a regional currency union with Belarus
and Kazakhstan, Russia's political and economic partners.
Putin made his proposal at a meeting with the Belarusian and Kazakh
presidents in Kazakhstan.
"The time has come to start thinking about forming a currency union,"
Putin said after the talks in the Kazakh capital Astana with Belarusian
President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakh President Nursultan
Nazarbayev. He gave no details of the proposal but suggested it would
be easier to meet economic challenges by working closely together.
Belarus and oil producers Kazakhstan and Russia are joined by Armenia
in the Eurasian Economic Union. A fifth former Soviet republic,
Kyrgyzstan, is due to accede to the bloc this year.-0-
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From: A. Papazian
YEREVAN, March 20. / ARKA /. Russian president Vladimir Putin
proposed on Friday creating a regional currency union with Belarus
and Kazakhstan, Russia's political and economic partners.
Putin made his proposal at a meeting with the Belarusian and Kazakh
presidents in Kazakhstan.
"The time has come to start thinking about forming a currency union,"
Putin said after the talks in the Kazakh capital Astana with Belarusian
President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakh President Nursultan
Nazarbayev. He gave no details of the proposal but suggested it would
be easier to meet economic challenges by working closely together.
Belarus and oil producers Kazakhstan and Russia are joined by Armenia
in the Eurasian Economic Union. A fifth former Soviet republic,
Kyrgyzstan, is due to accede to the bloc this year.-0-
http://arka.am/en/news/economy/time_has_come_to_start_thinking_about_forming_curr ency_union_putin_says/#sthash.ln9nYbYd.dpuf
From: A. Papazian