Russia is too busy to think of the “union” with Belarus :: Charter'97 :: News

Session of the council of ministers of the “union state” scheduled for 21 September has been postponed. That was declared in Minsk at the meeting of prime minister of Belarus Syargei Sidorsky with state secretary of the”union state” Pavel Borodin.

As spokesman for the Belarusian prime minister Alyaksandr Tsimashenka reported to the BelaPAN, P.Borodin told Syargei Sidorsky that rescheduling of the session resulted from the changes in the Russian government, particularly, from the due appointment of the Council of Ministers staff after the new prime minister Viktor Zubkov had been approved by the Duma .

A regular session of the council of ministers of the “union state” was previously scheduled for the third decade in September in Minsk. There are 17 issues on the session‘s agenda, 5 of them being dedicated to power enforcement structures activities in Russia and Belarus. Particularly, approval of the program of upgrading the external border of the “union state” for 2007-2011 was envisaged. Report on the “union state” budget implementation was scheduled for the first half of 2007. Several new union programs, the “Kosmos-NT” program being among them, are to be discussed at the forthcoming session. The parties are also going to discuss the draft agreement on pharmaceuticals and several other issues.