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COOPERATION AMONG FORMER SOVIET INDUSTRIALISTS?
At the invitation of the Russian and Kazakh Governments, all former Soviet Republics except the three Baltic states sent industry representatives to Karaganda, a large Kazakh mining town, on 28-29 May 1993 in order to discuss economic cooperation.
Participants in the meeting were ministry officials and the directors of the largest industrial concerns -- from coal mining to defence. Between them they provide some 40 million jobs and 57 per cent of the industrial production of the former USSR. Yet most of them now face the prospect of technical bankruptcy due to the breakdown of economic links that followed the political disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.
At the end of the meeting they signed agreements on "inter-governmental relations in...