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A meeting was held between the President of Belarus and the State Secretary of the Union State

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On January 9, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met with the State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev.

“It’s good that this year starts with this event. Frankly speaking, we need to update the agenda of the Union State and start by taking stock of the way we have traveled and outline plans for the future. To do this, the highest bodies of our Union State should already gather in person and hold an appropriate meeting. I think it would be possible to choose an algorithm for the Council of Ministers to hold its meeting, and based on the results we will determine the time of the meeting of the Supreme State Council, which will be held at the level of senior officials of our Union State,” Alexander Lukashenko said.

At the same time, the main issues on the bilateral agenda should be the implementation of sectoral programs, the Head of State stressed. “Economic, scientific, humanitarian and other programs that we finance. In no case can it be shortened. It is only necessary to increase financing, basing on the most relevant principles and directions of our work in the economy: import substitution and so on. What our states need now is both Belarus and Russia,” the President noted.

“Once we discussed the issue of creating a joint media holding. I understand that the press secretaries of Belarus and Russia for some reason withdrew from this work, leaving it for consideration either to you alone (although such questions are not done alone). I remind you once again: our common decision, the presidents of Russia and Belarus, is to create a good, sound, powerful, necessarily modern one. Otherwise, we will spend money, and there will be no sense. I am not a supporter of strapping to something, handing it to someone. We need an independent holding that corresponds to the spirit of the times,” Alexander Lukashenko said.

The President noted that time itself demands it. “Who are we going to buckle up to here today? Who can Belarus and Russia fasten themselves to? Our destiny is to go together and have someone to buckle up to us. Therefore, I think that this media holding should start working this year, preferably in the first half of the year,” the Head of State set the task.

He stressed that the administrations of the Presidents of Belarus and Russia should work on this issue together with the Standing Committee of the Union State. “We know some of your suggestions. They are absolutely normally perceived in Belarus. The only thing, Sergey Fedorovich, is that this complex, the media holding, must be independent, independent, if we want to create something serious and complete the 28 programs that we defined at the time. This movement should be continued,” Alexander Lukashenko addressed Foreign Minister Sergei Aleynik, who was present at the meeting.

Dmitry Mezentsev came to the meeting with the Head of State with several more proposals. The President touched upon some of them. “I absolutely accept and like the proposal to de-bureaucratize the activities of the Standing Committee (first of all, you are officials), and that you, the Post-Committee, send the main messages and impulses to de-bureaucratize the system related to the work of the Union State bodies in general,” the Belarusian leader said.

“And a number of other, working, maybe, issues that you would like to discuss. Let’s discuss them – promptly, briefly,” the President added. – I think we will meet again before the meeting of the Supreme Council after the Union Council of Ministers. Take the time for us to sit down and work out the agenda of the Supreme State Council. Talk to the Administration of President Putin on schedules. We will decide here. If necessary, I will talk with President Putin, and we will determine the final agenda for submission to the meeting of the Supreme State Council. And then we will determine the time, we will agree.”

 

Source: https://president.gov.by/ru/events/vstrecha-s-gosudarstvennym-sekretarem-soyuznogo-gosudarstva-dmitriem-mezencevym

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