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Russian premier Putin calls for Eurasian Union - "No new USSR"
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 10 - 2011

AlQa'dah 6, 1432, Oct 4, 2011, SPA -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday
called on former Soviet republics to form a Eurasian Union, but
rejected the idea that he was trying to resurrect the USSR, according to dpa.
"It would be naive to copy something from the past," Putin wrote
in an article in Izvestiya, a wide-distribution newspaper
historically considered an unofficial Kremlin publication.
The summary was Putin's first major policy paper since his
announcement last week that he would run in the March 2012
presidential race, a campaign he is widely predicted to win easily.
Putin said the basis of the economic cooperation group would be a
customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, which will come
into force in 2012.
"Extensive work" is in progress to include the Central Asian
ex-Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in the customs
union, and other regional states would benefit from participating as
well, he said.
"We propose a model of a powerful supranational organization which
is able to function in the modern world," Putin said.
A Eurasian Union would have free-trade rules and a common legal
framework similar to that of the European Union, and would form the
main political and economic link between the EU and the Pacific, he
said.
The agreement would however not be a mutual defence alliance
replacing existing regional treaties, Putin said.
Russia's most popular politician, Putin has long been a proponent
of closer economic cooperation between former Soviet republics,
calling such trade "natural ... and logical."
The Caucasian states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; and the
Central Asian states of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have shown
limited enthusiasm for Putin's vision, preferring to balance their
trade between Russia, south-east Europe and the Middle East.
Ukraine is another holdout, with Kiev having switched its
priorities repeatedly between Russia and the EU. The three Baltic
former Soviet republics joined the EU in 2004.


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