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Morning re-cap of main news, June 17

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* The states whose delegations attended the second summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, signed a raft of documents, including a declaration and an agreement on the organization's secretariat

* Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev met after a summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia. Putin and Nazarbayev:

- signed a joint statement and an agreement on the terms of the Eurasian Development Bank's operation in Almaty

- signed an agreement between Russia's Information Technologies Ministry and Kazakhstan's communications agency to help regulate technical issues dealing with telecommunications

- spoke for further development of strategic partnership and implementation of joint work to study and use outer space with civilian purposes to deepen integration process and strengthen Russia-Kazakhstan cooperation

- discussed the whole range of bilateral trade and economic ties

* President Vladimir Putin said:

- he hoped bilateral trade with Kazakhstan would exceed $10 billion in 2006

- Russia would continue helping Afghanistan's development and recovery

* The prime minister of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said warlord Abdul Khalim Saidullayev killed in a special operation Saturday had been planning large-scale terrorist acts in the republic

* Ingushetia's security agencies said two militants had been killed and a militant base discovered in a special operation in the North Caucasus republic

* Georgia's Foreign Ministry said Saturday it feared that Russia's $3.7 million aid to the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia would be used to militarize the conflict zone

* A spokesman for Russia's federal space agency said the launch of Kazakhstan's first satellite KazSat was scheduled for June 18

* Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran would give an "absolutely transparent" answer to the Iran Six's package of proposals to settle the crisis around the country's nuclear program

* Russian and Chinese companies signed contracts worth $2.5 billion at an international trade and economic fair which closed in Harbin in northeast China

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