MINSK, 2 December (BelTA) – As he met with Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin on 2 December, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said he constantly stays in touch with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “We constantly stay in touch, inform each other about the situation, and plan our future actions. I think we will once again compare notes at the end of the month. We'll talk about what is going on now and will determine our future for the next year.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko also mentioned that negotiations of heads of state of the post-Soviet space are supposed to take place soon. Especially since the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Commonwealth of Independent States is celebrated this year and the first meeting of the CIS heads of state in the history of this association took place in Minsk on 30 December 1991.