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- <title>
- Economic Pact of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
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- <article>
- <hdr>
- Foreign Policy Bulletin, January-April 1992
- The Reorganization of Europe: Economic Pact of Russia, Ukraine
- and Belarus, December 8, 1991
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Preservation and development of the existing close economic
- ties between our states is vitally necessary for stabilizing
- the situation in the national economy and creating the
- foundations for economic revival.
- </p>
- <p> The parties have agreed to the following:
- </p>
- <p>-- To carry out coordinated radical economic reforms aimed at
- creating feasible market mechanisms, transformation of property
- and ensuring the freedom of entrepreneurship;
- </p>
- <p>-- To abstain from any actions economically harmful to each
- other;
- </p>
- <p>-- To develop economic relations and mutual accounts on the
- basis of the existing currency unit--the ruble. To introduce
- national currencies on the basis of special agreements which
- will guarantee the preservation of the economic interests of
- the parties;
- </p>
- <p>-- To sign an interbank agreement aimed at curbing monetary
- emission, providing for the effective control over money supply
- and forming a system of mutual accounts;
- </p>
- <p>-- To conduct a coordinated policy of reducing the republics'
- budget deficits;
- </p>
- <p>-- To conduct policy of price liberalization and social
- protection;
- </p>
- <p>-- To undertake joint efforts aimed at providing for a single
- economic space;
- </p>
- <p>-- To coordinate external economic activities, customs policies
- and to provide for free transit;
- </p>
- <p>-- To regulate by special agreement the question of debt of the
- former U.S.S.R. enterprises;
- </p>
- <p>-- To coordinate in a period of ten days the amounts and
- procedure for financing of defense spending for 1992 and the
- expenditures for cleaning up the results of the Chernobyl
- nuclear disaster;
- </p>
- <p>-- To ask the Supreme Soviets of the Republics to take into
- account the necessity to coordinate the levels of sales taxes
- while forming tax policy;
- </p>
- <p>-- To help create joint-stock companies;
- </p>
- <p>-- To work out in December the mechanism for implementation of
- the inter-republican economic agreements.
- </p>
- <p>(Signed at Minsk, Belarus by Vyacheslav Kebich, Prime Minister,
- Republic of Belarus; Gennadi Burbulis, Secretary of State,
- Russian Federation; and Vitold Fokin, Prime Minister, Ukraine.
- Text distributed by Tass.)
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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