On February 7, Presidents of Belarus and Russia held talks in Krasnaya Polyana (Sochi).
The talks of Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Vladimir Putin were held in two rounds. The first one involved a limited number of members of the delegations — an aircraft with Russian officials was unable to land at the local airfield due to difficult weather conditions. The second round was held after a break for a hockey game.
After the meeting, Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office Dmitry Kozak said the following: “the talks were held in a positive way, we agreed to continue consultations at the level of governments, at the level of ministries and agencies to improve the mechanism of integration, to strengthen this integration”.
According to Kozak, Russia and Belarus have agreed to supply natural gas in 2020 on the terms of 2019 ($ 127 per 1 thousand cubic meters at the border). And oil discounts for Belarus are possible only in case of introduction of state regulation of oil supplies, believes Deputy Head of Presidential Administration.
“Crude oil prices are formed by the market and are not regulated. All this will remain. But we’ll provide all possible assistance in achieving these agreements to provide Belarus with the necessary volumes of oil,” said Dmitri Kozak.
