Lukashenka left for Sochi unexpectedly

• 24.08.2009, 12:26

The Belarusian ruler has already arrived to the resort, though the meeting with the Russian president is scheduled only for the second half of the week.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka was invited to Sochi by the Russian side, Russian president’s aide Sergei Prikhodko told journalists in Sochi on August 21.

“The meeting has been mutually arranged the second half of the week,” Prikhodko said. According to him, Dmitry Medvedev sent an invitation to his Belarusian colleagues “some time ago”.

An agenda for the meeting on bilateral trade and economic cooperation, Russian-Belarusian cooperation within the frames of EurAsEC and the Customs Union is being prepared, Prikhodko noed.

We remind that Lukashenka said during his working trip to Belarusian regions on August 20 that he was going to meet with Medvedev in Sochi to discuss “a range of important issues”.

“We arranged with the Russian president in Kyrgyzstan to put serious issues on the agenda and discuss them. Mr Dmitry suggested meeting in Sochi,” the Belarusian ruler said.

“I think we will have the meeting next week and we will discuss a wide range of difficult issues that are not solved,” Lukashenka said.

The press service of the Belarusian head of state doesn’t comment on the information that Lukashenka is already in Sochi.