Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine start CES talks January

Kazinform ^ | Dec. 15, 2004 | Kazakhstan News

[FairOpinion]

Minsk. December 15. KAZINFORM. Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine start talks on January 1, 2005, on the whole package of documents, needed for the formation of Common Economic Space (CES), Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Sauat Mynbayev told journalists on Wednesday. Summing up the results of the 18th meeting of the high-level group for the formation of CES, held in Minsk on Wednesday, he reminded that the package included some 90 documents, reports Itar-Tass. According to his information, the draft versions of all the documents with the exception of three have been prepared for the negotiations. Twenty nine priority documents, on which the negotiations are to be completed by July 1, 2005, are also ready. Mynbayev said the remaining three documents would be prepared by experts within a few weeks. Commenting on the package of documents, which facilitate trips of natural persons across the borders of the CES member states, Mynbayev said all the four agreements would be ready for signing by the next summit of the CES member states.

[FairOpinion]

I would like someone to explain, why is "EU -- GOOD, but CES -- BAD"

CES = Common Economic Space

[endthematrix]

The reasons will be stated that the EU is good over the CES is due to transparency with the US as well as common Western interests. However, due to the oil-for-food scam and guarded secret foreign polices of EU members, the trust factor has decreased. I still think multilateral pacts of other nations (any) should be a national security concern to the US.

[ApesForEvolution]

Russia-China comes to mind as well...

[Kozak]

Maybe because historically that "common space" has been synonymous with "Russian Empire"? Did that occur to you?