WHAT THE CIS SUMMIT IS REALLY ABOUT.

CIS Executive Director Ivan Korotchenyatold Russian television May 22 that viewers should understand what theupcoming meeting is really about: “a single army, a single border system, asingle economic space.” Or what many would call a single state. But themeeting is unlikely to move the 12 member states very far in that direction.Although the Minsk session is scheduled to last two days, President BorisYeltsin will not even spend a full day there, Itar-Tass reported May 22.

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