ANOTHER CIS MEETING FAILS TO REACH AGREEMENTS.

A meetingof the CIS Interstate Economic Committee failed to reach agreementon a number of key issues nor even to discuss the central oneof creating a payments union, Russian deputy premier Aleksei Bolshakovtold Interfax August 1. Instead, the representatives of the CIScountries told one another that "we all work very well butat the same time we are all quickly sliding downward," Bolshakovsaid.