Lukashenko arrives at Kremlin for CSTO summit
15:50, 11 November
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Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has arrived at the Kremlin to take part in a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, BelTA has learned.
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The leaders of the countries are set to discuss the activities of the CSTO and consider current issues of international and regional security. In his speech, the Belarusian president will focus in detail on matters of ensuring collective security in Eurasia and will present Minsk’s position on the key areas of the organization’s development.
Opening the summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “Russia, as the current CSTO chair, has prepared and agreed with all participants of the organization the agenda of the meeting, which includes discussion of current issues of global and regional security, the review of the CSTO’s activities in the current year and adopting new decisions on the key areas of our interaction.”
On the eve of the summit, Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence in Moscow Oblast. The leaders discussed bilateral cooperation, noting among other things the growth in Belarusian-Russian trade.
“Trade has indeed grown decently this year. By about 20%. By more than 21%,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “We trade in the goods Belarus and Russia need. It is good.”
"We have an astonishing trade, there's no other way to put it,” Vladimir Putin noted.
The Belarusian head of state thanked his Russian counterpart for supporting Belarus with modern types of weapons, and Vladimir Putin said that Russia highly values Belarus’ assistance in organizing humanitarian exchanges.
