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On 15 March, Russian Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus with a one-day working visit to take part in a session of the Council of Ministers of the Belarus-Russia Union State and a meeting of the Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community – the supreme body of the customs union between Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. He also held talks with President Lukashenka. Russian Prime Minister‟s plane was an hour and a half late. The Belarusian leader said Minsk has pinned high hopes on the Common Economic Space that was planned to be created within the Customs Union. "In Belarus, we have always placed great expectations on that union, and we see its great potential," Lukashenka said. Evaluating Moscow-Minsk relations, he said “We have no problems in the economic sphere”. He recalled that in the middle of 2010, the two states had agreed to iron out all the differences and start the new year on a clean slate. He admitted that both Russian and Belarusian economies are experiencing problems that had been brought from outside, but “they are not lethal”. Lukashenka did not mention Belarus-Russia conflict over oil duties that started 10 day before the presidential election last year and in fact forced the Belarusian leader to join the common economic space. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia would help Belarus to construct its first nuclear plant, which would be more secure than those damaged by the recent earthquake in Japan.

• Месца выхаду: Brussels
• Дата выхаду: 2011-03-16
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