BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

11/04/2009

Russian, Belarusian presidents discuss G20 summit results

GORKI, April 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko discussed the results of the recent G20 summit in London.

"We meet often enough, and that's good. This means that we can always synchronise our watches on various issues," Medvedev said as he received Lukashenko in his residence outside Moscow.

Medvedev said he had briefly informed Lukashenko by telephone about the results of the G20 summit in London and invited him to discuss them in more detail.

"I believe it would be useful to discuss these results because they affect the economies of almost all countries in the world, including the Russian and Belarusian economies," Medvedev said. "All the more so because they are closely interconnected, and we always have questions to discuss, and this makes practical sense."

Lukashenko thanked the Russian president for the opportunity to meet. "You and I have agreed a set of questions to discuss, and we are meeting now even though you have a busy schedule. I am very grateful to you for that," the Belarusian leader said.

He said the meetings of the heads of state "spur government officials and keep them toned".

"This is why many questions that seemed to be unsolvable are settled on the eve of the meeting. So, this greatly benefits both Russia and Belarus, no doubt about that," Lukashenko said.

Earlier, Lukashenko positively assessed the results of the G20 summit and said he expected the summit participants to cancel protectionist measures. "I am glad that the London summit agreed to avoid protectionism. I hope they will abide by this agreement and will not block the delivery of foreign commodities," the president said.

Lukashenko welcomed the consent between the summiteers who had taken into consideration the opinion of the United States and Britain that appealed for larger funding of the economy and the opinion of France and Germany that called for stricter administrative control over financial markets.

It is important to implement the summit decisions, Lukashenko said. "At least half of the problems created by the crisis would have been resolved with the avoidance of protectionism by G20 member countries, primarily Russia," he said.

"Things would have been much easier for Belarus if Russia had cancelled restrictions on Belarusian commodities," Lukashenko said. "Let us wait and see. If the London agreements are fulfilled, that would be good. If not, we will count on our own resources."

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13784304&PageNum=0

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