Belarus affirms 26 integration roadmaps, another 2 in pipeline – premier
<p> MINSK, Apr 29 - PrimePress. Belarus has initialled and sent 26 draft Union State programs on integration to the Russian side. Two more documents are still in the pipeline. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made a statement to this effect at a meeting with Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin in Kazan on Apr 28. </p> <p> </p> <p> Roman Golovchenko said: “We continue working on the package of integration documents. On 23 April we handed over 26 draft Union State programs the Belarusian side had initialled to the Russian side. It is a huge amount of work that the relevant government agencies have done. Two programs of the Union State of Belarus and Russia are still in the pipeline. In line with the instruction you and I have given deputy prime ministers supervise the work and continue constructive negotiations on these matters. I am convinced that all the necessary solutions will be found in the interests of both sides.” </p> <p> </p> <p> While meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 22, President Lukashenko said there were only two or three union programmes of economic nature remaining for Belarus and Russia to reconcile. In his words, in the summer of 2021 we will hold a Forum of Belarus and Russia’s regions in Moscow Oblast. “Then we will decide on a meeting of the Supreme State Council in autumn, where we will be able to formalize all our agreements by signing certain documents,” Lukashenko said. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, the governments of Belarus and Russia initialled a Union State integration program in September 2019 and approved 31 roadmaps in various areas. Draft roadmaps were expected to be coordinated by November 2020, and Lukashenko and Putin were supposed to approve the entire package of integration documents on December 8, 2019 during the events timed to the 20th anniversary of the Belarus-Russia Union Treaty of December 8, 1999. The signing of the package did not take place. Belarus said that the parties failed to reach accompanying agreements on Russian energy prices, compensation for Belarus’ losses resulted from the tax manoeuvre in the Russian oil industry, and removal of barriers to Belarusian commodities in the Russian market. Lukashenko said he would not endorse the roadmaps unless the above fundamental issues are finally resolved. End </p>
2021-04-30
Primepress
Belarus affirms 26 integration roadmaps, another 2 in pipeline – premier
MINSK, Apr 29 - PrimePress. Belarus has initialled and sent 26 draft Union State programs on integration to the Russian side. Two more documents are still in the pipeline. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made a statement to this effect at a meeting with Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin in Kazan on Apr 28.
Roman Golovchenko said: “We continue working on the package of integration documents. On 23 April we handed over 26 draft Union State programs the Belarusian side had initialled to the Russian side. It is a huge amount of work that the relevant government agencies have done. Two programs of the Union State of Belarus and Russia are still in the pipeline. In line with the instruction you and I have given deputy prime ministers supervise the work and continue constructive negotiations on these matters. I am convinced that all the necessary solutions will be found in the interests of both sides.”
While meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 22, President Lukashenko said there were only two or three union programmes of economic nature remaining for Belarus and Russia to reconcile. In his words, in the summer of 2021 we will hold a Forum of Belarus and Russia’s regions in Moscow Oblast. “Then we will decide on a meeting of the Supreme State Council in autumn, where we will be able to formalize all our agreements by signing certain documents,” Lukashenko said.
As previously reported, the governments of Belarus and Russia initialled a Union State integration program in September 2019 and approved 31 roadmaps in various areas. Draft roadmaps were expected to be coordinated by November 2020, and Lukashenko and Putin were supposed to approve the entire package of integration documents on December 8, 2019 during the events timed to the 20th anniversary of the Belarus-Russia Union Treaty of December 8, 1999. The signing of the package did not take place. Belarus said that the parties failed to reach accompanying agreements on Russian energy prices, compensation for Belarus’ losses resulted from the tax manoeuvre in the Russian oil industry, and removal of barriers to Belarusian commodities in the Russian market. Lukashenko said he would not endorse the roadmaps unless the above fundamental issues are finally resolved. End