TURKMEN PRESIDENT WAS PROPHETIC.

Convalescing after heart surgery, President Saparmurad Niazov sent a delegation to represent him at the CIS summit with instructions that Foreign Minister Boris Shikhmuradov summarized on arrival: "Turkmenistan will not sign any document." In the event, that was the unplanned outcome of the Council of Heads of State.

Kyrgyzstan Prematurely Hopeful on Customs Union.