Medvedev will come to Minsk next week

Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the "union state" of Belarus and Russia is supposed to be held on July 18 in Minsk.

For this purpose, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev plans to visit Belarus, said Ambassador of Belarus in Russia Andrei Kobyakov.

"It is assumed that a regular meeting of the Council of Ministers of the "union state" will be held on July 18 in Minsk," - said the Belarusian diplomat, answering the questions of the agency "Interfax-West".

Andrei Kobyakov said that "the agenda of the forthcoming meeting is quite intense, it is planned to consider a large set of issues". In particular, the ambassador said, it was expected to consider the issues of fiscal policy, the issues of trade and economic cooperation, to discuss the energy balance of the "union state" for the next year.