Belarus, Russia close to aligning all integration documents
14:14, 17 August
Belarus and Russia have almost completely aligned the integration documents, Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Nikolai Snopkov said at a meeting of the president with senior officials of the Council of Ministers on 17 August, BelTA has learned.
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"For almost three years, at the initiative of our Russian partners, we have been working to deepen the integration as part of the Union State Treaty. After a pause in the winter of 2019, the negotiations resumed in the summer of 2020. In the process of negotiations, we identified what the primary interests of each side were. For Russians, this is the tax and customs regulation, i.e. transparency, traceability of goods on their territory. For us, these are the terms of cooperation in the energy sector and access to the Russian market. The main difficulty in our negotiations was the aligning of these interests," Nikolai Snopkov said.
As a result, the parties almost completely aligned the package, including the guidelines and 28 Union State sectoral programs and also the draft resolutions on their approval by the Council of Ministers and the Supreme State Council of the Union State.
