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TURKMEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS TO BE IN 2009 - NIYAZOV

ASHGABAT. Oct 24 (Interfax) - Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov said that presidential elections will be held in 2009.

"In 2009, we will hold the elections for another president," Niyazov said at the 16th meeting of the People's Assembly in Ashgabat.

"By that time, in four or five years, we will raise a worthy successor," the president said.

"There is nothing eternal. One cannot be eternal," Niyazov said.

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