Events

MINSK, 12 May (BelTA) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Mogilev to attend a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Belarus-Russia Union State, BelTA has learned.

Before the meeting, Dmitry Medvedev and his Belarusian counterpart Andrei Kobyakov will hold talks to discuss a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation.

The agenda of the meeting includes 27 issues. The main block is about trade and economic cooperation. The meeting will discuss the action plan to establish additional conditions for the development of trade and economic cooperation, the medium-term socio-economic development forecast of the Union State, and will consider the supply and demand forecasts for essential products in 2016.

The participants to the meeting will review the scientific and technical programs of the Union State “Development and creation of new-generation micro-system engineering and dual-use integrated systems for 2010-2014 and will consider the draft concepts of some five-year programs.