Andreichenko: Belarus, Russia united potentials will be a good response to West’s pressure

Integration of the economic capacities of Belarus and Russia will become a good response to the West’s sanctions pressure, Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko said as he opened the sixth session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the seventh convocation on 4 October, BelTA has learned. “We have to solve no less important tasks within the program of international and inter-parliamentary cooperation, where our top priority is to strengthen strategic cooperation with the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China and the CIS countries. As far as deeper integration within the framework of the Union State is concerned, the recent agreements between the leaders of Belarus and Russia have brought us very close to the main goal of the negotiations, which took more than a year. The goal was to create equal conditions for economic entities. The unification of the economic potentials of Belarus and Russia will be a good response to the sanctions pressure of the West. Of course, MPs must be actively involved in this mission. This is the task that the head of state set before us,” said Vladimir Andreichenko. According to the speaker, there is still a lot of work to be done. “Since the composition of the Russian representation in the Parliamentary Assembly is being renewed, we need to maintain continuity in our work and identify new directions for it,” he added.