May 4, 1994 - RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service has obtained the text of a communique issued at the end of the closed-door summit of the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan that was held in the town of Cholpon-Ata on Lake Issyk-Kul on 29 and 30 April. During the summit Kyrgyzstan became a formal member of the economic union set up by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in January; Kyrgyzstan had expressed its intent to join only a few days after the creation of the new regional grouping was announced. The communique stresses the need for increased cooperation in the political, cultural, and especially the economic sphere among the Central Asian states. The new economic union is offered as the basis for a CIS economic union, and all CIS states are invited to join.