Lukashenka to negotiate with Putin in Sochi
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Sochi today. They will discuss Minsk-Moscow cooperation and the integration in the Eurasian Economic Union, ria.ru reports.
The meeting will be important before the presidential election appointed in Belarus on October 11, the Russian President’s aide Yuri Ushakov said.
The two state leaders will also take part in a plenary session of the second forum of the region of Belarus and Russia dedicated to the industrial policy of the Union State.
Putin and Lukashenka have already met six times and talked by phone many times this year.
The Russian and Belarusian Minister of Finance signed an inter-state agreement on the allocation of a 10-year $760 million Russian credit to Belarus at the end of July. The credit has helped increase the international reserves, the National Bank announced.
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