Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov

On June 9-10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov, who was on his first official visit in Moscow.

The talks were held in a traditionally trust-based and truly comradely atmosphere. The ministers discussed a wide range of key issues of Russia-Belarus strategic partnership and alliance. They focused on diplomatic support for the integration process in the Union State. They voiced coinciding or quite similar positions, while considering current international and regional issues, including the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. The sides exchanged opinions regarding their future collaboration to forge a Greater Eurasian Partnership and new Eurasian security architecture. Following the meeting, Sergey Lavrov and Maxim Ryzhenkov signed a joint address to the foreign ministers of Eurasian states on drafting the Charter of Eurasian Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century. The ministers reviewed, in great detail, issues of future integration within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, as well as mutual collaboration at the United Nations Organisation and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Addressing a joint news conference, the foreign ministers of Russia and Belarus discussed, in great detail, the agreements reached by them.