MOSCOW, 12 December (BelTA) - Challenges and Western sanctions have brought Belarus, Russia even closer together, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Speaker of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said at a session of the Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow on 12 December, BelTA learned.
“It should be said that the pace of our cooperation is set by our presidents - Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Lukashenko. It is their friendship, their mutual understanding and relationship that create this strong, good basis, the foundation for our work. And, I must say, the challenges, sanctions, obstacles to the development of our states have united us even more. This brought us closer to each other and made us stronger,” Vyacheslav Volodin noted.
He recalled that these days Belarus and Russia are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Union State Treaty. “We all know that the decision was taken at a very difficult time,” the speaker noted, emphasizing that time has shown that the path chosen then was absolutely correct. “Today, for our part, we are trying to do everything to make our relations closer, to strengthen the unity of our peoples and states within the framework of the new format of cooperation. It has not yet exhausted itself. Far from it. We are looking for new forms,” Vyacheslav Volodin said.
“When it comes to the parliamentary dimension, we should do our best to contribute to the development of relations, to find new forms of cooperation through which we will understand each other better and work out solutions that people expect from us,” the speaker added.
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