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According to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, key ministers from his government came to Minsk to discuss the creation of a State of Union with Belarus. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced his visit to the Russian Federation to “mark the i’s”.
Progress has been made in the negotiations between Russia and Belarus on the creation of the State of the Union. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said this on September 3 in Minsk after a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Interfax reports.
The head of the Russian government, who is in Minsk on an official visit, stressed that the newly created State of the Union will be based on the “absolutely independent position” of the two states, but with economic measures, previously agreed.
Mishustin noted that “all key ministers” of the Russian government came to Belarus to discuss the agenda, which, in particular, includes the issues of trade, culture, sports, health, energy and industry.
Lukashenko, in turn, announced his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We will hold a meeting with him in Moscow and finally we will put the i’s on these issues, which are very sensitive and painful for both states,” the Belarusian politician said, citing the Russian government website.
Russia and Belarus have been negotiating the creation of the State of the Union for more than 20 years. If the parties agree, the economic ties between Moscow and Minsk could be strengthened at the level of the European Union or even the federal states, Russian media noted.
In late 2018, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper wrote that Lukashenko, in negotiations with Putin, agreed to unify the legislation with the Russian Federation, create a single parliament, a cabinet of ministers and other government bodies, and switch to common symbols and a currency. only.
In April 2019, then-Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said that Belarus had received proposals from Moscow for further integration with Russia under the State of the Union framework.
Lukashenko said that Belarus will not become part of other states, “not even fraternal Russia”, and that he does not want to go down in history as the last president of Belarus.
On September 1, 2020, when the protests began in Belarus, Lukashenka declared his desire to “preserve a common homeland with Russia.”
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