President Vladimir Putin met with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko Sunday in Yalta for talks on bilateral cooperation between the two countries
Published:
25 May 2004 y., Tuesday
President Vladimir Putin met with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko Sunday in Yalta for talks on bilateral cooperation between the two countries, as part of a summit in the Crimea involving leaders of the Single Economic Space agreeement.
The summit, the first between member nations Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia, opened Sunday and marked a “symbolic event” in the first stage of the zone’s development, Interfax quoted a source close to the talks as saying. Earlier President Putin called the summit a “period” in the first stage of forming a free-trade zone.
The agreement forming the alliance was signed last September between the four former Soviet republics to facilitate trade and, in part, as an answer to the European Union’s free trade zone.
After his meeting with Lukashenko, Putin expressed satisfaction with the talks, noting that “despite a number of problems… Belarus is second in trade volume with Russia after Germany,” RIA Novosti quoted the president as saying.
Putin also met Sunday with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev for talks on the unification of tarrif and customs policy.
Šaltinis:
GAZETA.RU
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
At the European Union‘s General Affairs Council meeting on 7 December in Brussels, Lithuania‘s Minister of Foreign Affairs and his counterparts discussed preparation of the European Council scheduled for 10–11 December, as well as a work programme prepared by the trio of future EU presidencies: Spain, Belgium and Hungary.
more »
On December 9, Wednesday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will receive Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council.
more »
In the meeting with leaders of parliamentary groups of the Seimas, President of the Republic of Lithuania D. Grybauskaitė underlined that the state budget for 2010 would decide whether Lithuania would manage to overcome the economic downturn or, on the contrary, fall deeper into it, and urged all political forces to assume political responsibility.
more »
On 8–9 December, Vilnius will host consultations among the U.S.A., Italy, Spain, and Lithuania - the four countries which lead Provincial Reconstruction Teams under the Regional Command West of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
more »
President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Tarja Kaarina Halonen of Finland on the occasion of Independence Day.
more »
Continuing his official visit to India, today Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas together with Economy Minister Dainius Kreivys and a business delegation of 28 members arrived in Mumbai, India’s financial centre.
more »
On 2-5 December, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas is paying an official visit to India.
more »
During the plenary session of the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on 1 December in Athens, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs V. Ušackas stressed the importance of the dialogue on European security for strengthening the mutual confidence of the participating States.
more »
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė received Ambassador of the United States of America to Lithuania, Anne Elizabeth Derse.
more »
On 26 November in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas met with Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia David Bakradze, who is on a visit to Lithuania.
more »