Boris Yeltsin's aides claimed an important victory yesterday as leaders of Russia's powerful ethnic republics agreed to use the President's draft proposals as the basis for discussion on a new constitution, Reuter reports from Moscow. Republican chiefs formally endorsed Mr Yeltsin's plan for a special assembly at the Kremlin on 5 June to finalise a new constitution aimed at breaking Russia's political deadlock.
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