February 28, 2001 - 19:51 AMT
"RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION DOESN'T NEED ARMENIA"
YEREVAN, February 28. /Mediamax/. Deputy secretary of state of Russia-Belarus Union, Sergey Kalashnikov, commenting in "Commersant" daily on perspectives of other CIS states' membership in the Union, said: "We don't need either Armenia or Moldavia yet".
Communists, who won the parliamentary elections in Moldavia, speak for their country's accession to Russia-Belarus Union.
"In order to become a full member of Russia-Belarus Union, Moldavia has to create its own real economic and political basis and pass the path we've already overcome ". --0--