YELTSIN, KUCHMA TO VISIT MINSK.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 12

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Although the Russian president has put offany visit to Kiev until the Crimean issue has been resolved, Boris Yeltsinwill meet with Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko later this monthafter the Minsk meeting of Commonwealth of Independent State Leaders,Segodnya reported May 13. Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma is also planningto meet with Lukashenko, the Belarusian embassy said in a May 15 pressrelease. Kuchma’s foreign minister is currently in Minsk to prepare themeeting which will feature the signing of a friendship treaty between the twoSlavic states.

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