20 August 2009
Belarus, Russia Presidents to meet next week
TOLOCHIN REGION, 20 August (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are set to have a meeting the coming week, the Belarusian leader told reporters during his working trip to the Vitebsk oblast. “We agreed to work out an agenda that would cover most burning issues. Now the President of Russia is in Sochi and he invited me to have a meeting,” Alexander Lukashenko said. “We will discuss the whole range of most complicated issues that have not been solved yet,” the head of state added. “I stick to the principle: a deal is a deal. This is all that matters. I do not want a situation when we agree on something, then the Russian side is waiting until we do something, we are waiting until they do something, as a result agreements are not implemented, because they fail at the initial stage,” the Belarusian President said. The head of state pointed out that the observance of this principle will discourage speculations regarding the direction to which Belarus has veered (western, southern or other).БЕЛТА