Lukashenko’s Press Secretary: unprecedented level of personal communication between presidents of Belarus, Russia affects Union State agenda

There was a lot of informal communication between presidents of Belarus and Russia, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, during the official visit of the Belarusian leader to Russia – as noted by President’s Press Secretary Natalya Eismont in her talk with the Belarus 1 TV channel

“At the press conference, the President said that the official part, the necessary attributes, are of course good and important, but he and the President of Russia prefer the working format. In fact, the same can always be said about their informal meetings,” Ms. Eismont noted. “We understand that informal meetings between the two countries’ leaders are held in a working format, and the presidents spend a great deal of time discussing working issues, but in a more comfortable, friendly atmosphere. On Thursday [March 13th], they talked one-on-one for an hour. Then they also talked before the press conference, and as all members of the delegations who received substantive instructions from the President told us, they had time to discuss a huge range of issues already on Thursday. The current agenda is broad: bilateral relations, and especially the world situation, the regional situation, and the changing global transformations. Therefore, of course, the presidents have a lot to talk about.”

The President’s Press Secretary emphasised that there was a lot of informal communication between Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, “As usual. First of all, the nature of their relations is absolutely friendly, very deep. I would even say, unprecedented, it is personal. This, of course, primarily works for the common Union State agenda.”