THE HEAD OF COMPANY PETROLIERE OF TIOUMEN (TNK), SEMEN KOUKS, ALLOWED
A DIRECTION OF THE COUNCIL OF BUSINESSES AMERICANO-RUSSE








WASHINGTON, March 13.  / Corr.  RIA " Novosti " Arkadi ORLOV /. the
president of the Company petroliere of Tioumen (TNK), Semen Koukes,
became the representant first of Russia has to be allowed with the
Council of the directors of the Council of businesses
americano-Russian, has advertisement Tuesday the president of the
CAAR, Eugene Lowson.




The Council of businesses americano-Russian is the largest
organization of the sector americain deprives.  It reunit 260
companies and groups which operent on the Russian market.




The admission of a representants of the TNK has the direction of the
CAAR is the result of the efforts produced by the Council to amplify
the participation of the mediums of businesses and of the Russian
companies to the work of this organization which " proposes to
reinforce the commercial contacts between the United States and Russia
and to consolidate the positions of the businessmen americains on the
Russian market ", A declares Eugene Lowson.




The Council fills of the functions of coordination and consulting.  It
prepare in particular of the recommendations has the intention of the
governments of the two countries to support the surge of investments
americains deprive on the Russian market.