[net-gold] COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE: Russia and 2 Neighbors Form Economic Union That Has a Ukraine-Size Hole
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- Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 00:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE:
Russia and 2 Neighbors Form Economic Union That Has a Ukraine-Size Hole
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Russia and 2 Neighbors Form Economic Union That Has a Ukraine-Size Hole
By NEIL Mac FARQUHAR
MAY 29, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/world/europe/putin-signs-
economic-alliance-with-presidents-of-kazakhstan-and-belarus.html
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus
formally signed an agreement on Thursday to create a limited economic
union an alliance hobbled by the absence of Ukraine but one long pursued
by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to confirm his country as a
global economic force.
Today we are creating a powerful, attractive center of economic
development, a big regional market that unites more than 170 million
people, Mr. Putin said during the ceremonies. He underscored the
significant energy resources, work force and cultural heritage of the
combined nations.
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Sitting at a table with his two fellow leaders in front of their
respective flags, Mr. Putin said that the group, formally known as the
Eurasian Economic Union, had the potential to create a global
transportation hub joining the trade flows of Europe and Asia.
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While that may eventually prove to be the case, the alliance that comes
into force on Jan. 1 will be a pale imitation of what the members first
envisioned: an eastern version of the 28-member European Union.
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Three weak economies getting together and integrating: How much good can
come out of it? said Nargis Kassenova, the director of the Central Asian
Studies Center at Kimep University in Almaty, who is part of a small but
vocal opposition to the union in Kazakhstan. Now, it is even worse because
one is under sanctions and drifting away from the West, Ms. Kassenova
added, referring to Western economic sanctions against Russia.
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Although the presidents of Armenia and Kyrgyzstan attended the signing
ceremony and expressed an interest in joining, the missing guest at the
party was Ukraine. That countrys previous government in Kiev tacked back
and forth on whether it would join the European Union or the new Eurasian
group, eventually choosing Mr. Putins offer and igniting a public uprising
that ended up bringing down the president in February.
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We lost someone along the way, I mean Ukraine, said Aleksandr Lukashenko,
the president of Belarus. Mr. Lukashenko, who received a $2 billion loan
and energy concessions from Russia just before the signing, acknowledged
that the union as constituted was something less than he had anticipated.
Unfortunately, it is not the agreement that our partners originally
announced, he said, according to Belta, the official Belarus news agency.
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He also called for economic union to be followed by political and military
unity, a concept that Kazakhstan rejected.
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