Inter-Parliamentary Conference

Telman Gdlyan, the national deputy of Russia is smoking near the VR building, after the first day of Inter-Parliamentarian Conference "Belarus, Russia, Ukraine - experience and problems of integration" in Kyiv (Thursday, June 10, 1999). In the course of the conference the representatives from Russia and Belarus support the joining of Ukraine the Belarus and Russia Union. The representatives of Russia marked that the Russia and Belarus Union is the "Illegal organization" and "it is not serious to speak about the Union" without Ukraine. Gdlyan named the sovereignty of the former USSR republics as "myth". According to him, that myth was initiated in the situation, existing in the USSR by the end of the eighties. He said, that "political swindle" had led to the "present situation" and walkout of republics, forming the USSR. Photo by Sergey Demidov/ UNIAN