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Rapota: CIS heads of government may meet before year-end

Grigory Rapota. An archive photo

MINSK, 27 October (BelTA) – A meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia may be held before the end of the year, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told reporters, BelTA has learned.

“I think that  the meeting will be held before the end of the year," Grigory Rapota said. “But I would not absolutize the very fact of holding the heads of government meeting. The council makes the decisions that fall within its purview. Members of the Council of Ministers have already made several such decisions during the year, without convening for a meeting. Decisions can be adopted in a routine mode. For example out of 20 items on the agenda, nine have been settled in a routine mode.”

The state secretary stressed: "Things are moving along, and it is important not to stop. But we still need to get together. I hope that we will hold such a meeting by the end of the year."

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