UKRAINE PREPARED TO JOIN RUSSIAN-BELARUSIAN CUSTOMS UNION.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 54

During a visit to Minsk, Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchmasaid Kiev was prepared to join the Russian-Belarusian customsunion but that such a step might take some time, Interfax reportedJuly 17. "To restore relations is much more difficult thanto break them," Kuchma added.

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