Meeting of Union State Supreme State Council to be held in Moscow on April 6

Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin will sum up the interim results of 28 Union State programs and will discuss the relevant issues of both bilateral and international relations at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State. The task is to increase the trade turnover despite the sanctions pressure on our countries.

Darya Belousova-Petrovskaya studied the union agenda. For a few days, the Kremlin in Moscow became the venue of the Belarusian-Russian negotiations. April 5 there was a meeting between the presidents of the two countries, and today union issues will be discussed at a meeting of the Supreme State Council with members of the government and parliaments of Belarus and Russia.

On the eve of his address to the nation and the parliament, President of Belarus outlined all the tasks, including those related to Russia. And first of all, of course, the economy. During the session, they will discuss the implementation of 28 allied programs. Some of them are already fully implemented. And some of them need additional instructions, so to speak, "political impetus" from the heads of states.

Dmitry Krutoy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia:

“If we talk about the results already achieved, probably the most important of them was the signing of the tax agreement, the establishment of our already supranational tax committee, the completion of the information system for monitoring indirect taxes - its launch in late January this year in practical work. And the governments of the two countries admit that this is the main achievement. And the second, probably, in terms of importance is, of course, the customs card. The supranational customs committee has already been actively involved in the work, and it monitors the movement of all the goods that are most significant in terms of countering the sanctions. If we talk about the current ones, then, of course, it is an industrial map and, probably, a transport map.”

Belarus and Russia managed to cope with the sanctions strike. We were predicted the collapse of the economy, but we not only survived, but also began to develop new cooperation projects. According to experts, it was the sanctions that gave an impetus to regional cooperation, import substitution and, in fact, gave a second wind to the development of the Union State.