Russia and Kazakhstan Customs Union

Russia and Kazakhstan will form a customs union by July 1, 2010. Minsk was not ready to join on the terms proposed by the two countries. 

Partners have put up with the lack of Minsk, and have agreed on all issues in a bilateral format and in the evening they announced the successful completion of negotiations:

"We have agreed on a bilateral basis the Customs Code of the Customs Union", - Putin said at a press conference. "We are open to the accession of Belarus to all agreements and decisions taken by us," - he said.

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