PAVEL BORODIN KEEPS TRACK OF RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION STANDING COMMITTEE








MOSCOW, March 7, 2001 /RIA Novosti/ -- The duration of telephone calls to Moscow that Pavel Borodin, Secretary of State with the Union State of Russia and Belarus, can make from the Brooklyn detention centre, where he has been held since last January, is limited.


	Nonetheless, sources in the Standing Committee of the Union State, which Pavel Borodin heads, said he "constantly phones his secretariat and has the necessary information" on the Committee's activities.


	The Standing Committee is currently preparing a planned meeting of the Union State's Council of Ministers, slated to be held March 27 in Moscow.


	Pavel Borodin was detained last January in New York, where he had travelled to take part in festivities celebrating the US President's inauguration. The arrest was carried out on a request from the Geneva prosecutor's office, which accused Pavel Borodin of money laundering and demanded his extradition to Switzerland.