BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

03/02/2009

Belarus, Russian president meet one-on-one in Kremlin

Presidents of Belarus and Russia Alexander Lukashenko and Dmitry Medvedev are having a one-on-one meeting in the Kremlin, BelTA informs. The meeting will be followed by a session of the Supreme State Council (SSC) of the Union State.

The agenda of the SSC session includes a number of issues concerning measures to lessen the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the economies of Belarus and Russia, bilateral cooperation in the financial and credit area, military and technical sector. The SSC participants are expected to approve the Union State budget 2009, consider progress in fulfilling the Union State Social Development Concept, which runs until 2010. The session will also table a programme of foreign policy actions of the Union State Treaty member-states for 2008-2009.

In 2008, mutual trade totaled $34,188,9 million, up 31.1% from 2007.

Russia accounted for 59.8% of Belarus' foreign trade in 2008 (49.2% in 2007, 47.4% in 2006). Belarus is ranked sixth in Russia's foreign trade.

In 2008, Belarus mainly exported milk and other dairy products, tractors and truck tractors, trucks.

Belarus' major customers are Moscow (26.5% of the exports to the Russian Federation), the Moscow oblast, St Petersburg, the Smolensk and Nizhniy Novgorod oblasts, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Rostov, Bryansk, Kemerovo and Chelyabinsk oblasts.

Belarus mainly imported Russian goods from the Tyumen oblast, Moscow, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Moscow oblast, St Petersburg, the Samara, Vologda and Chelyabinsk oblasts, the Perm Territory and the Kaliningrad oblast.

Source:

http://news-en.trend.az/cis/belarus/1415921.html

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