BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

30/07/2007

Russia, Belarus prime ministers meeting in Moscow

MOSCOW, July 30 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has expressed readiness to solve all issues in the trade and economic relations with Belarus.

Meeting Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky in Moscow on Monday, Fradkov said "we shall try to find approaches in order to solve all questions that worry us".

"They are not so numerous, but they are there, are major to minor ones," he said.

"We have rapidly reacted to your request to meet, and we are ready to discuss a number of questions of trade and economic cooperation," Fradkov said.

He also said meetings of the two countries' prime ministers had become regular, and the whole range of the Russian-Belarussian relations had been discussed at the latest meeting.

The Belarussian prime minister expressed the hope that the progress of an economic cooperation agreement would be reviewed at the talks.

He said "there is a number of practical questions and problems that we would like to discuss".

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11754567&PageNum=0