Union State programs to top agenda of Belarus-Russia summit

       Twenty-eight Union State programs will top the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the presidents of Belarus and Russia, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei told the media on 2 September, BelTA has learned.

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     «The upcoming meeting will most likely focus on the 28 Union State programs, the work on which has been going on for more than three years. They have been prepared and will be submitted to the presidents of Belarus and Russia in the coming days. At the upcoming meeting, I assume, the presidents will make appropriate decisions on further steps related to the implementation of these Union State programs. Some time ago, after analyzing the provisions of the Union State Treaty, the parties realized that a number of them had not been fulfilled. Therefore, it was decided to implement the provisions of the treaty that are related to closer integration in various areas.»

As BelTA has reported, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko commented on this topic the other day. “First of all, I would like to emphasize (now they will start saying that we give up on our sovereignty and so on) that at the meeting in Sochi three years ago we instructed the governments to make the next step in the Union State construction process. However, everything was put on hold, there have been no breakthrough movements,” Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked. “Back then, responding to the requirements of people, the Russian president and I made a decision to take certain steps.”