CIS PRESIDENTS WILL ATTEND INAUGURATION.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 145

Russian first deputy foreign minister Boris Pastukhov announced yesterday that all the heads of the CIS member states have agreed to attend the inauguration of Russian Boris Yeltsin’s second term of office. The presidents will begin arriving in Moscow August 8 for the event scheduled for August 9. (Itar-Tass, July 24) Several presidents, notably Ukraine’s Leonid Kuchma and Georgia’s Eduard Shevardnadze, intend to discuss unresolved problems with Yeltsin at the ceremony.

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