Mezentsev spoke about the successes of integration within the Union State
Moscow and Minsk have fulfilled the fifth part of the action plan to implement the provisions of the agreement on the creation of the Union State for 2024-2026. This was stated to "Izvestia" by the State Secretary of the Union State (SS) Dmitry Mezentsev.
"The successes are obvious. We expect at the end of 2024 almost $60 billion of trade turnover between Russia and Belarus. We note a qualitatively different level, quality, depth, scale of interaction between the regions. Now we are working on the formation of socio-economic forecast of the Union State until 2030, which has never happened before," he said.
According to Dmitry Mezentsev, everything is done consistently, verified, scaled to the tasks at hand.
"One fifth of the 310 tasks that formed the basis of the 31 Action Plan for the implementation of the provisions of the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State for 2024-2026 have already been successfully completed," he said.
The State Secretary of the SU recalled that in December 2024 Russia and Belarus celebrated the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State.
On December 6, a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State was held under the chairmanship of Presidents of the two countries Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin. At this meeting, heads of government Mikhail Mishustin and Roman Golovchenko reported on the successes of socio-economic integration, said Dmitry Mezentsev.
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