Lukashenko to meet up with Putin on May 28 to discuss “mostly economic” issues, including sustained crude supplies

<p> MINSK, May 26 - PrimePress. Another meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko is scheduled for Friday, May 28, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. In his words, they do not plan to make any statements for the press following the meeting. </p> <p>   </p> <p> During a meeting with Belarusian MPs, members of the Constitutional Commission and representatives of government bodies, which took place in the Oval Hall of the House of the Government on 26 May, President Lukashenko said he plans to discuss the situation with companies that face Western sanctions and oil sales to Minsk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. </p> <p>   </p> <p> “I will not mention specific issues, but it will be mostly the economy. In connection with the situation around Belarus and Russia, how we will move forward,” the state news agency BelTA reports citing Lukashenko as saying. </p> <p>   </p> <p> “As for Russia, there are some problems there … I will not say that our relations with the Russians have worsened, on the contrary, we are now trying to find a way out of this or that specific situation,” Lukashenko said as cited by the Sovetskaya Belorussiya - Belarus Segodnya newspaper. </p> <p>   </p> <p> Lukashenko added that some issues are related to companies “that are under sanctions” of the West. End </p>

2021-05-27

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