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Foreign ministers of Belarus, Russia meet in Minsk

The foreign ministers of Belarus and Russia held a meeting in Minsk on Tuesday, BelaPAN reports.

Belarusian Minister Syarhey Martynaw played up foreign-policy cooperation between the two countries.

"We have a program of joint action implemented successfully, consultations on all matters are held regularly," he said.

The minister stressed that his Russian counterpart's visit to Belarus had been planned in advance. "We agreed back last year on holding negotiations on a regular basis," he said.

Sergei Lavrov, for his part, expressed a high opinion of foreign-policy cooperation between the two countries. "We have a firm basis - a program of joint action approved by the Supreme State Council [of the Belarusian-Russian Union State]," he said.

The Belarusian and Russian foreign ministries will hold a joint board meeting this fall, Mr. Lavrov said.