Borodin: Supreme State Council meeting posponed over differences

Pavel Borodin, secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, told Novyye Izvestiya that the union's Constitutional Act may be adopted only at a referendum.
He described the act as "a sort of constitution for a transition period" to a confederation that will be similar to the European Union. Borodin added that Belarus and Russia will retain their sovereignty.

 

The Union State Supreme State Council is supposed to put the act to a referendum, he said and added that several versions have been drafted. "The process may be completed in 2009," Borodin predicted.

 

He noted that a meeting of the Supreme State Council, originally scheduled for November 3, had been postponed because of differences over several issues.