Many Russian officials are very sensitive to the implications of abolishing the ethnic republics, and one who attended the same meeting where Rossel presented his ideas suggested that Moscow would move cautiously in this sphere.
However, Rossel's own views have evolved over the years.
After their meeting, Nazarbaev told journalists that the two discussed the possibility of extending Ukraine's Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Gdansk to provide an outlet to the Baltic, as well as the construction of a 52-kilometer pipeline from Dnepropetrovsk to Ukraine's Pivdenny terminal.
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