Russia is not going to reject the «union» with Belarus :: Charter'97 :: News

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin declared that Russia was not going to refuse the creation of the “union state” with Belarus. “We, together with Belarus, are going to continue the construction of the “union state”, said Putin at his conference in the Kremlin.

He emphasized that Russia was glad to welcome the changes ”made by the Belarusian authorities in terms of adjusting the tariffs for oil and oil products ”.”It is the real step forward to creation a full-value custom’s union”, Putin declared, as Interfax. reports.

He also mentioned that despite certain complicated issues with Belarus this year both countries, nevertheless, signed the agreement on transit and on changing the prices for power supplies.

“It is not important yet, how much they are paying today-it is important that we have fixed all the stages of transition to the market in the documents, it has been done softly within a four- years period, on absolutely friendly terms”, Putin remarked.

As it was stressed by the Russian president, “ of course it might have been desirable to leave everything as it was but that is impossible as we are separate states.”

“We also suppose that not everything has been lost with introduction of the common currency. I am sure that our Belarusian partners are able to analyze the realities and to realize the reliability of the Russian economy and Russian national currency”, the Russian president pointed out.

He also assumed that Russia and Belarus “might have decide on the common currency which might be neither Russian nor Belarusian ruble,” ” or as we previously planned, to start with the Russian ruble. Such things are possible”, president of the Russian Federation said.