Lukashenka wore military uniform for meeting with Medvedev (Photo)

Alyaksandr Lukashenka was dressed military uniform and took along his youngest son Kolya for a meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Zavidova residence (the Tver region).

Pictures of Medvedev and Lukashenka in military uniform, walking with Medvedev in Zavidova, were spread by Reuters agency. Russian media reported that the two leaders preferred walking outside to talking in a cabinet. Lukashenka in camouflage uniform and Medvedev in mufti were walking in the park, drinking tea and warming themselves at the fire.

The Charter’97 press center has already informed that Alyaksandr Lukashenka left for Moscow together with his 5-year old youngest son Kolya. Some days ago the Belarusian ruler took his son along for a meeting with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan.

There is little official information about the meeting of Medvedev and Lukashenka. Russian information agencies reported about some statements by the two heads of states at the meeting, held in Russian presidents’ residence Zavidovo.

“Belarus and Russia must implement the agreements, reached at the latest session of the Supreme State Council of the “union state,” Alyaksandr Lukashenka said.

According to him, serious steps were made and agreements were reached at the February session of the Supreme State Council. We need to “control, fulfil them in these hard conditions” in order them not to stay just on paper, he added.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka noted that actions of Belarus and Russia were concerted. “Belarus provides about ten million of Russians with work. Such giants as MAZ, BelAZ and our other companies buy up to 70 percent of spare parts in Russia. We will support this cooperation,” Lukashenka said. He also added that the economies of the two countries were interrelated, nobody is going to cut them off.

Dmitry Medvedev confirmed that the latest session of the Supreme State Council had been the most informative in the last few years. The parties reached serious agreements in both economic and humanitarian sectors. “All agreements should be implemented, we must see real contracts and supplies,” the Russian president emphasised.

Dmitry Medvedev also noted that chose the necessary number of meetings. He offered his Belarusian colleague “to look through the agreements of the Supreme State Council, discuss the current affaires, and regional problems”.

The talks focused on a wide range of issues, including implementation of agreements of the Supreme State Council of the “union state”, trade and economic cooperation issues, joint measures on the global financial crisis tackling, cooperation in energy and financial sectors, cultural contacts. The heads of state shared their views on the state of industrial cooperation and the issue related to the supplies of products of the Belarusian engineering industry to Russia.

One of the main conditions for successful implementation of the agreements of the Supreme State Council is creating of favourable and equal regime of the trade and economic activity for economic entities of the two countries.

Issues of the military and technical cooperation were also discussed. This year, Belarus and Russia will conduct strategic exercise Zapad 2009, which is to become the biggest exercise in the history of the Belarusian-Russian military grouping.

After the negotiations, Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Dmitry Medvedev continued informal talking.

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