No plans for Belarus-Russia common currency – envoy

June 26, BPN. Minsk and Moscow are not planning to introduce a common currency in their Union State, a Belarusian diplomat has said, claiming that Alaksandr Łukašenka and Vladimir Putin have agreed not to discuss it.

“It is a political issue that existed when our union treaty was signed in 1999,” the Belarusian ambassador in Moscow, Dźmitryj Krutoj, told Russia’s RIA Novosti newswire in an interview. “It does not appear anywhere now.”

He said that the “strong” national currencies are used in 85 percent of trade transactions between the two countries.

Łukašenka told the Russian Central Bank governor one month ago that launching a common currency is difficult and probably can’t be done “today.”