As SOYUZ announced earlier, during a three-day official visit to Russia, the Minister will also meet with Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Stating that the foreign policy interaction between Belarus and Russia is systemic in nature, Minsk clarified that Sergei Aleinik and Sergei Lavrov met on December 19, 2022 and January 18-19, 2023 in Minsk, as well as on April 14 2023 on the sidelines of a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of CIS member states.
As part of the talks between the Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, this time a wide range of topical issues of bilateral cooperation and the international agenda will be discussed.
The parties are expected to discuss practical aspects of Russian-Belarusian inter-MFA cooperation, including preparations for a joint meeting of colleges of ministries to be held in the fourth quarter of this year in the Russian capital.
In addition, “an assessment of the implementation of the program of coordinated actions in the field of foreign policy of the States parties to the treaty establishing the State of the Union for 2022-2023 and of the plan of inter-MFA consultations for 2023 will be reviewed,” Smolenskaya Square was informed.
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