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President slates idea of Eurasian Economic Community

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    President Karimov has criticised the plans of other Central Asian states to establish a EurAsian Economic Community (EAEC) with Russia and Belarus, Uzbek television reported on Friday. The EAEC would replace the former Customs Union, a body aimed at achieving a free economic zone and achieving closer coordination of customs policies, according to current proposals. Speaking at a news conference in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Thursday, Karimov said the six-year-old Customs Union had not shown any substantial results, and described the new body as “stillborn”. The news conference marked the first day of an official visit by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who also expressed scepticism about the EAEC, labelling it a “time-bomb” for the former Soviet states.

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