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Saturday, 16 April 2005
KYRGYZ PRESIDENT SUPPORTS KAZAKH LEADER\'S UNION PROPOSAL
By empty (4/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a meeting with Kazakh Ambassador Umirzak Uzbekov in Bishkek on 16 April, acting Kyrgyz President Bakiev said that he supports Kazakh President Nazarbaev\'s plan to create a union of Central Asian states. \"We fully support this idea. The idea has been around for quite a while now and I think that such a union would only promote economic rapprochement, first and foremost, and of course political union.
At a meeting with Kazakh Ambassador Umirzak Uzbekov in Bishkek on 16 April, acting Kyrgyz President Bakiev said that he supports Kazakh President Nazarbaev\'s plan to create a union of Central Asian states. \"We fully support this idea. The idea has been around for quite a while now and I think that such a union would only promote economic rapprochement, first and foremost, and of course political union.\" Nazarbaev proposed the idea in an address to the nation on 18 February. (RFE/RL)