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5 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has thanked his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, for “joint work in all areas”, but especially in everything that has to do with guaranteeing security in both countries, great allies in Eastern Europe. This.
Putin and Lukashenko held a meeting on Wednesday as part of the visit of the Belarusian head of state to Moscow, where he plans to attend a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State on Thursday, a supranational entity that brings together Russia and Belarus.
At the beginning of said meeting, President Putin recognized the joint work of both countries, highlighting above all “interaction in the international arena” and “the joint solution of issues to guarantee security.”
“Thank you for coming: this will give us the opportunity to talk calmly in a relaxed atmosphere about what we will have to decide tomorrow and discuss in an official environment,” the Russian president stressed, according to the Interfax news agency.
For his part, Lukashenko has assured that Belarus and Russia will overcome the pressure exerted by Western powers. “We did not collapse. And we will not collapse,” said the Belarusian president, a faithful ally of Putin.
Beyond issues related to the security of both countries, both Putin and Lukashenko have stressed the importance of addressing economic issues, one of the areas in which both nations face the most problems as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Likewise, it is expected that both leaders will also address the proposal for a truce in Ukraine formulated by the Belarusian president, who advocates this measure as a step prior to the start of peace talks between Moscow and Kiev.
However, last week the Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, spoke out against accepting this proposal and defended that the special military operation, the euphemism with which Moscow refers to the armed offensive on Ukraine, is “the only way to achieve the goals.”
