In today’s difficult political conditions, the Minister stressed, the strategic partnership between the two brotherly countries “is confirmed by the great dynamics of these contacts which are taking place at different levels”.
At the same time, he said that the main impetus is given by the leaders of the two states, since their “open and trusting relations make it possible to find solutions to fundamentally important problems which contribute to the strengthening and expansion of ties of integration”.
The Belarusian minister also drew attention to the significant intensification of bilateral cooperation at the intergovernmental, interparliamentary, interministerial and interdepartmental levels, emphasizing interregional cooperation.
Calling it “a very important and serious common area of work”, Aleinik clarified that in the last year alone, more than two hundred visits by representatives of the regions of Russia and Belarus have taken place. This, he said, makes it possible to build completely new forms of economic cooperation, to solve import substitution programs, to use the resource base which is not yet fully involved in bilateral trade, the turnover economic and investment.
Naturally, assured the Belarusian minister, Minsk aims “to develop all this multilevel and multifaceted cooperation between countries”. Speaking in general about trade and economic cooperation in the Union State space, he stressed that the dynamics of the past year and a half “inspire very serious optimism, because literally in the first quarter of this year it was possible to increase the total trade turnover by 22%.
Sergei Aleinik, who is in Moscow for a three-day official visit at the invitation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, already met with Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin on Tuesday. And on May 17, the agency informs, talks between the foreign ministers of Belarus and the Russian Federation are planned.
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