Posted on 08/20/2005 6:03:22 AM PDT by Lukasz
AUG. 19 2:10 P.M. ET Ukraine's economy minister said Friday that his country intended to pull out of an economic pact with three other ex-Soviet republics led by Russia following talks with the Russian trade minister, the Interfax news agency reported.
"The main result of our meeting is that Ukraine and Russia have decided what to do with the CES project," Serhiy Teriokhin was quoted as saying by Interfax. "We are switching to a bilateral format of cooperation with Russia."
He said that a committee would be established to discuss bilateral relations with Russia. "Evidently, after this committee is established, Ukraine will withdraw from the Common Economic Space," Teriokhin said according to the agency.
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First, let the former Soviet states return the several hundred million tons of grain that was ripped off in 1921, 1931, and 1947 and that caused the deaths of 15 million.
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
Walter Duranty
Pulitzer Prize winning "journalist" for the New York Times
I'm for one very glad that it had hapenned. No more price preferences, credits and donations under disgise of "brothery".
I didn't like the idea with CES from start. It was very expensive for Russia.
Now Russia will have more profits:).
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