Meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held an informal meeting in the agro-town Alexandria on 12 May.

The meeting lasted for more than three hours. Aleksandr Lukashenko and Dmitry Medvedev discussed all the important issues of the current agenda, including bilateral relations, economic cooperation, regional issues and the international agenda.

The agreement on the meeting was reached in Sochi in January 2016. The Belarusian head of state showed the Russian guest his native land. Aleksandr Lukashenko and Dmitry Medvedev tried natural birch sap, took pictures near the Belarusian leader’s home and visited the Trofimova Krinitsa restored under the President’s instruction nearly three years ago.

The informal meeting of Aleksandr Lukashenko and Dmitry Medvedev was held after the official events in Mogilev which hosted the meeting of the Union State Council of Ministers on 12 May.