“Council of Ministers of the Union of State” is to resolve problems with the EEU establishment

Such agreement was reached at a meeting of Aliaksandr Lukashenka and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on June 16.

 “We are to synchronize positions,” President Aliaksandr Lukashenka said at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday, June 16, adding that his visit is timely due to the existing problems between the two countries, even though “there are no special problems in bilateral relations and at the ministries’ level.”

Belarus and Russia have the programme of cooperation in 2014-2015. “I’m sure that the programme will be implemented as it should be between the brotherly countries,” ITAR-TASS quotes Lukashenka saying.

Sergei Lavrov said that “it is necessary to discuss the implementation of the agreements, reached at the meeting with Vladimir (Putin).” “Today we’ve worked fruitfully and intend to report on further actions. The upcoming discussions with the Council of Ministers of the Union of State will provide a foundation for developing the economies and resolving social issues in countries,” he said.

According to BelTA, Belarus and Russia have plans to hold a session of the Union State Council of Ministers in early autumn in order to settle some issues related to the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty. “I think we need to discuss our relations in the Union State format in the near future, maybe at the start of the autumn. I think, the governments should convene and hold a session of the Council of Ministers at a minimum, in order to settle some issues, in particular those related to the Eurasian Economic Union. I think this meeting of the two governments will give a signal to the third party to have a same-level discussion of some issues that might arise by autumn in the context of the operation of the new economic union,” Aliaksandr Lukashenka said.