BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

07/12/2007

Belarus denies plans to name Putin as Union State head - spokesman

CARACAS. Dec 7 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's office has expressed "surprise" at Russian media reports that there are plans to name Russian President Vladimir Putin as head of the Union State of Belarus and Lukashenko as speaker of the Union State's future parliament.

"This information remains on the conscience of its inventors," Lukashenko spokesman Pavel Lyogky told Interfax.

Lyogky is accompanying Lukashenko on his current visit to Venezuela.

Source:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11925894

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