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cooperation with our closest neighbors, the CIS states. We have always had and will always

have, I'm sure, special relations with these countries because of our shared history. And

we have a lot of economic interactions with these countries, these neighbors. For decades,

we've built special kind of relations with them in the humanitarian sphere, in a human

dimension. We have a lot of marriages that span our countries, their mutual interest

in each other's culture, and we have relations in other areas as well.