BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
27/08/2009
Russia, Belarusian leaders set schedule for additional meetings
MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko agreed Thursday on a schedule for additional contacts, a presidential aide said.
Ties between the former Soviet neighbors have been strained over a range of economic and political disputes, including a controversial Russian ban on Belarusian dairy products in June. That ban triggered Minsk's boycott of a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Moscow.
The two presidents agreed during a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi to attend the West 2009 exercise in Belarus on Sept. 29, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told the Interfax news agency.
Medvedev will also participate in a session of the EurAsEC (Eurasian Economic Community) Interstate Council in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Nov. 27, Prikhodko said.
The presidents plan to hold "a separate Russian-Belarusian meeting" during the summit, Prikhodko said.
"We hope that joint efforts will help make the session of the Supreme Council of the Russian-Belarusian Union State successful," Prikhodko said, referring to a meeting scheduled for early December in Moscow.
Source:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/28/content_11955550.htm
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