(AGENPARL) - Roma, 6 Aprile 2023(AGENPARL) – MOSCOW gio 06 aprile 2023
Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko chaired a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State at the Kremlin.
The meeting’s agenda included a review of the progress on the Guidelines for Implementing the Provisions of the Treaty
Establishing the Union State in 2021–2023, a document that envisages joint work
under 28 sectoral Union programmes.
The participants on the Russian side included members
of the Supreme State Council – President of the Russian Federation Vladimir
Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union State Mikhail Mishustin, Federation Council Speaker
Valentina Matviyenko and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
The attending Belarusian members of the Supreme
State Council included President of the Republic of Belarus – Chairman of the Supreme State Council of the Union State Alexander Lukashenko, Prime Minister
of the Republic of Belarus Roman Golovchenko, Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir
Andreichenko.
State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry
Mezentsev represented the Standing Committee of the Union State.
The heads of several ministries and government
agencies from both Russia and Belarus were also invited to the meeting.
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Beginning of meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus
President of Belarus
Alexander Lukashenko:
Friends,
We have long developed approaches and regulations in this regard, and agreed on them yesterday with President Putin, and I think you will agree to entrust me with chairing this meeting. However, as is
traditional – we have always done it this way – Mr Putin, thank you for hosting
this expanded format meeting today, and of course, I give you the floor for a word of welcome.
President of Russia Vladimir
Putin: Colleagues,
friends, Mr Lukashenko,
I actually only have a few words to say. I would like to welcome everyone to Russia, to Moscow. You certainly feel at home
here. We are working very closely together as part of the Union State. President
Lukashenko, as Chairman of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, will moderate
our work today. As your host, I just want to welcome you again, and wish you fruitful
work.
Our governments and parliaments have worked
hard to prepare our today’s meeting. In fact, we have gathered only to record
the results of your work. I would like to thank you for your effort and express
hope that, if there are any issues that have not yet been agreed upon, although
I don’t see any, but if anything arises in the course of live discussion and hands-on work, we will certainly reach agreements and find solutions acceptable to both
parties, a practice we have always used in our joint activities.
Thank you very much. Welcome.
To be
continued.
Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70883
