MOSCOW, MARCH 26. (RIA NOVOSTI). Russia is calling the Commonwealth of Independent States to establish a Eurasian regional team on the pattern of the FATF, Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service. The CIS Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs approved the initiative at its session in Minsk today, the FATF reports in a press release.
The conferees think interested countries ought to convene a constituent conference of the prospective team, which has every chance to appear even within the year, as we announced previously.
