Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia To Establish Customs Union

MINSK -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is in Minsk ahead of a Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) summit where Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan are to form a customs union, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Nazarbaev will hold talks on cooperation before the Eurasec summit begins on November 28. Kazakh Ambassador to Belarus Anatoly Smirnov told RFE/RL that Kazakh and Belarusian leaders will sign a number of "important documents, including ones regulating cooperation between the economic institutions of the two countries." The document establishing the customs union is slated to be signed on November 28 and the union is due to begin on January 1. By July 1, customs checkpoints along the Belarusian-Russian border are to be closed, as will checkpoints along the Kazakh-Russian border a year later. Lukashenka told journalists in Minsk on November 24 that the customs union will provide "great support to Russia," adding that Kazakhstan and Belarus will not be the "backyards" of such a union. Source:rferl.org

 

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Lukashenko Favors Rapid Steps to Set Up Economic Space With Russia, Kazakhstan

Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English)MINSK. Nov 27 (Interfax) - The establishment of a common customs space in the middle of 2010 and then of a common economic space will become a key stage in the development of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.

The next key stage of the Customs Union should become the formation of a common customs territory in the middle of next year, after which we should promptly achieve the highest level of economic integration - the creation of a common economic space," Lukashenko said at a session of the Eurasian Economic Community's Interstate Council in Minsk on Friday.

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PGNiG, Petrolinvest To Cooperate In Kazakhstan

WARSAW (Dow Jones)--Polish gas monopoly PGNiG (PGN.WA) and oil company Petrolinvest (OIL.WA) signed an agreement to cooperate on exploration projects in Kazakhstan, Petrolinvest said in a statement Wednesday. The agreement closes a dispute between the units of the two companies that resulted in a PGNiG unit filing for the bankruptcy of Petrolinvest's TOO Emba Yug Neft, the company also said. Under the deal, PGNiG may in the future acquire shares in Petrolinvest or in its assets. A PGNiG appointee will also sit on Petrolinvest's supervisory board. Source:wsj.com

 

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HRW Urges Kazakhstan To Improve Rights Before Heading OSCE

RFE/RL) -- Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the international community to demand that the Kazakh government improve the country’s human rights situation before it leads the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in January, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

The statement by the New-York based rights group on November 25 came ahead of an OSCE foreign ministers’ meeting in Athens, the last meeting of the OSCE before Kazakhstan assumes the OSCE chair.

HRW said that Kazakhstan needs to bring its human rights record in line with OSCE standards, and it criticized Kazakh authorities for tightening state control over media and prosecuting human rights activists.

HRW also criticized Kazakhstan’s handling of the case of Yevgeny Zhovtis, the director of the nongovernmental Kazakh Bureau for Human Rights.

Zhovtis was sentenced in September to four years in jail for his role in a deadly traffic accident. HRW said that the investigation and trial leading up to Zhovtis's conviction were marred by serious procedural flaws that denied him the right to present a defense and gave rise to concerns that the case was politically motivated.

Kazakhstan successfully secured the OSCE chairmanship in late 2007 after promising to reform media laws and election regulations, and to simplify the registration process for political parties.

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Kazakh president invites Lukashenka to visit Kazakhstan

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who held talks with Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Minsk on Thursday, invited the Belarusian leader to visit Kazakhstan in 2010 and take part in an informal CIS summit scheduled for December 18, 2009,





The Kazakh president said that he and his Belarusian counterpart were determined to bring relations between the two countries to "an absolutely new level."

A “roadmap” for bilateral trade and economic cooperation for 2010 and 2011 was signed in the presence of Messrs. Lukashenka and Nazarbayev.

The roadmap provides for the two countries to carry out efficient projects in agriculture and the machine-building and chemical industries, said the press office of the Belarusian leader.

The meeting also resulted in the signing of agreements on cooperation in the public health sector and medicine, on production, scientific and technical cooperation, and on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation at the provincial level.

A memorandum of mutual understanding was signed on Thursday between the Belarusian finance ministry and Kazakhstan's Agency for Control and Supervision of Financial Market and Financial Organizations.

Belarus and Kazakhstan intend to develop bilateral relations, focusing on new forms of economic cooperation, the press office said. In particular, they want to step up investment and production cooperation, share modern technologies and participate in international and regional economic projects in the other country, the press office said.

An agreement was reached to include joint projects involving Belarusian companies in Kazakhstan's 2010-14 industrialization program.

Mr. Nazarbayev expressed confidence that economic cooperation would be a basis for developing relations between Belarus and Kazakhstan in other areas. "There are no unsolved problems between our states," he said. "We're open for cooperation."


Source:/naviny.by