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CIS meets today to map out policies
MOSCOW. Dec 20 : With the Soviet Union dead and burled^ Commonwealth of Independent Stale* (CIS) meet in the Belarus capital of Minsk tomorrow to try to map out compion political. military and economic policy in what promises to be a tough task, report* AFP.
Despite a resolutely optimistic stance by the Russian leadership as regards the summit meeting - being held on the anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union, on December 30. 1022 the negotiations are, as Tasa News Scommented today, ex
to be 'difficult' and
The 11 states arc vcr^dl-mthUw Ukraine staMuvZit particularly.
As regard* mlhlary matters, they have been unabk- to agree on how a 'defence council' they set up at their Alma Ala meeting earlier this month should work. Only the question of control of nuclear weapons deployed in Russia. Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan seems settled so far.
Even on this, while Ukraine and Belarus have clearly stated their intention to become nonnuclear states. Kazakhstan Is still allowing some doubt to subsist over its future possession of strategic nuclear weapons.
After the Alma Ala meeting. President Nursultan' Nazarbayev indicated that Kazakhstan would only give up all such arms if Russia did likewise.
Their discussion of conventional defence matters threatens to be as thorny, after the failure of two-day marathon talks in Moscow last week, at which the Ukraine. Azerbaijan and Moldavia reiterated their determination to act up their own armed forces, firmly rejecting the idea of a unified military.
Since the Alma Ala meeting, the Ukraine has repeatedly refused to be part of any military bloc or. to delegate the command of Its troops, despite the conciliation efforts of
Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhntktv. who Is cflcettwly acting as interim Defence Minister of the
'Marshal Shaposhnikov Is the supreme commander of strategic forces, but not of all the armed forces," Ukraine's President Leonid Kravchuk has pointed . out. 'Ukraine.' Kravchuk added, "has adopted laws for the training of its own military forces...which come directly under the present of the republic.''
On the economic front, the signatories to the Alma Ata accord are also having great difficulty in drawing up a pro-gramme of reforms and cooperation. The determination of the Russian leadership to press ahead with Its plan to free prices next Thursday.