{"id":201232,"date":"2026-08-25T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/201232\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:18:29","slug":"lukasenka-announces-upcoming-meeting-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/201232\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka announces upcoming meeting with Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n (Komsomolskaya Pravda on YouTube\/ Still by Pozirk) <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

August 25, <\/strong>Pozirk<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka announced on Sunday that he plans to hold another meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Belarusian ruler\u2019s press office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will meet with Russia\u2019s prime minister in the near future,\u201d \u0141uka\u0161enka said while meeting with Russia\u2019s visiting First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. \u201cAnd we will also meet with Russia\u2019s president to discuss the issues that we cannot settle with Manturov.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He did not specify the dates of the upcoming meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141uka\u0161enka stressed that Belarus, \u201cunlike other countries that are naturally friends of Russia but do not want to say anything publicly,\u201d does not shy away from \u201cany convenient or inconvenient questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe say openly that we consider it an honor to cooperate with Russia, and we will continue to do so,\u201d \u0141uka\u0161enka said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141uka\u0161enka and Putin last met on June 26 and 27, in the Russian president\u2019s residence of Valdai in the Novgorod province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information about the meeting was scarce, mostly limited to general statements about the items on its agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 26, the Belarusian ruler\u2019s press office reported that he had had a one-on-one meeting with Putin, with \u201cimportant issues of Belarusian-Russian cooperation in different areas, the implementation of joint projects\u201d and \u201cinternational topics and the situation in the region\u201d under discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin\u2019s press office tersely reported that the \u201cheads of state discussed the agenda of the Union State, trade and economic cooperation and the implementation of joint economic projects as well as issues relating to regional security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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