KYRGYZSTAN TO ENTER CIS CUSTOMS UNION.

Kyrgyzstan expects to join the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan customs union at a summit meeting in Moscow March 29, the country’s government announced yesterday. The agreement was finalized in Bishkek with Russian deputy prime minister Aleksey Bolshakov. Kyrgyzstan, a potential exporter of electrical power, also agreed to combine its power system with Russia’s. (Interfax, March 20)

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