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Moscow companies to build a dozen hypermarkets in Minsk

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov told reporters in Minsk on September 8 that the Belarusian authorities had given their consent for Moscow companies to build about a dozen hypermarkets in the Belarusian capital city.

Mr. Luzhkov said that also under discussion had been issues concerning the construction of the "House of Moscow" in Minsk.

He noted that Moscow would continue purchasing Belarusian-made refrigerators, televisions, clothes and foodstuffs.

Mikhail Pavlov, head of the Minsk city government, said that Aleksandr Lukashenko had proposed to Mr. Luzhkov that Moscow should place Minsk's Moskovsky district under its patronage.

Mr. Luzhkov and several dozens of other mayor and vice mayors of cities in the post-Soviet region were staying in Minsk on Friday to attend a session of the CIS International Association of Capitals and Large Cities.

The Moscow mayor chairs the association.

While in Minsk, he had a face-to-face meeting with the Belarusian leader, visited the newly opened ProStore hypermarket and the nearly completed underground mall on Independence Square. //BelaPAN