MINSK, 3 February (BelTA) – Big, ambitious tasks are ahead of Minsk and Moscow, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he received the credentials from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Belarus Boris Gryzlov in Minsk on 3 February, BelTA has learned.
Welcoming Russian Ambassador Boris Gryzlov, the president said: "You are a long-time friend of Belarus and we appreciate your great services to the cooperation between our countries." Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
According to the head of state, big, ambitious tasks are ahead of Minsk and Moscow. "2021 went down in the history of our states as the year of fateful decisions to advance economic integration, which will bring our strategic partnership to a qualitatively new level. I very much hope that, being a very experienced politician in the Russian state and on the international scale, you will contribute to the multifaceted Belarusian-Russian ties and integration," Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.
As it has been reported, Boris Gryzlov was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Belarus in January of this year. During his professional career, he served in various senior positions in Russia, including Minister of Internal Affairs, a permanent member of the Security Council, chairman of the State Duma. Since 2002, he was the chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party, since 2015 - the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation and the plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the contact group to settle the situation in the east of Ukraine.
