THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE BIELORUSSIE ON THE SINGLE
CURRENCY EAST RATIFIES








MOSCOW, March 14.  / Corr.  RIA " Novosti " Maria BALYNINA /. the
Council of the Federation, Upper House of the Russian Parliament, A
ratifies the agreement between Russia and Bielorussie on the single
monetary unit and the common broadcast transmitting station of the
Russia-Bielorussie Union.  This decision has ete taken has the
majorite voices.




The president of the committee of the Upper House for the businesses
of the CEI, Oleg Bogomolov, said that the purpose of this agreement is
to establish the modalites passage has the single monetary unit of the
Union has through various stages of the transformations operees in the
spheres economic, financial and monetary of the two countries.




Although the role of the single monetary unit of the Union is filled
from January 1 2005 by the Russian rouble, the agreement ratifies
prevoit the possibility of using it in this quality before this date,
if the economic and organisational conditions were reunies to this
end, continued Oleg Bogomolov.  The document says that from 1 January
2008 between in force a new single currency of the Union on the basis
of agreement between Russia and Bielorussie.




The Council of Federation A also ratifies other international
agreements, in particular the agreement on the co-operation of the
States of the Black Sea in search and the rescue on water, an
agreement between the governments of Russia and Azerbaidjan on the
principles of perception of the indirect taxes in the bilateraux
exchanges, as well as the 6th protocol has the general Agreement on
the privileges and the immunites of the Council of Europe.