(AGENPARL) - Roma, 25 Giugno 2022(AGENPARL) – MOSCOW sab 25 giugno 2022
Beginning of Russian-Belarusian talks
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, Mr Lukashenko.
Thank you for coming.
We are having our meeting on a remarkable day:
on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
between our countries. It is not an ordinary day, and that is why we agreed to meet. In addition, the scale of our interaction is so big that we need constant
coordination, and that is what we are doing.
I would like to note again that last year bilateral
trade grew by over one third and exceeded US$38 billion, and the increase continued
throughout the first four months of this year.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko: 110 percent.
Vladimir Putin: That’s it, so it appears we are on the right
track.
Russia has invested US$4 billion in the Belarusian
economy in the previous years, which are our direct investments. Belarusian businesses
also made investments. We have good large-scale joint projects, and there are
many current issues in this area.
I would like to tell you about the course and the outcome of the discussions with our BRICS colleagues. Many of the speakers expressed
concerns related to disruptions in food deliveries and price hikes on food and fertiliser in the global markets.
Considering that Russia and Belarus are the biggest suppliers of fertiliser to the global market, I would like to discuss
with you ways of satisfying the demand on the global market and our permanent
customers.
I think we have 15 percent of the global trade,
and 25 percent in some fertilisers, which is a very significant amount in the world markets. Low use of fertiliser obviously brings down the next year’s harvest
outlook. All that is very regrettable.
Nevertheless, we have agreed to undertake everything
we can and take all steps dependent on us so as – I will repeat it – to satisfy
the needs of our consumers, our customers.
Evidently, there are problems with maintaining
security in the region and in the entire world. A number of questions arise
here. I will inform you about all these problems with regard to the developments in Donbass.
Issues related to building the Union State certainly
remain within our scope of efforts. Our respective agencies have agreed on practically
everything, and now the issue is just the implementation of all the set goals.
Overall, we have a fairly big and substantive list
of issues to be discussed today.
To be continued.
Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68702
