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Putin, Lukashenko Pledged To Boost Russia-Belarus Integration

MOSCOW, Apr 7 (NNN-TASS) – Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, vowed yesterday to push ahead the integration process between the two countries.

The two leaders made the remarks when jointly chairing a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus at the Kremlin.

At the meeting, Putin noted that, “significant achievements” had been made in the integration of 28 prioritised sectors, approved during the previous Supreme State Council meeting in 2021.

Russia, Belarus preparing common electricity market agreement — Putin

MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/: Russia and Belarus continue building up integration in the energy sphere, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

"The process of creating common oil and gas markets of the two countries continues. An agreement on forming the common electric power market is being prepared for signing," the Russian leader said.

Russia: Union State’s Security Concept and integration: statements by Putin, Lukashenko

MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/:  Russian and Belarussian authorities will prepare the Union State Security Concept. The document will outline the two states’ basic cooperation goals, including listing external challenges, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Union State Supreme State Council meeting in the Kremlin.

Kremlin: Nuclear deployment to Belarus is response to NATO expansion: Russia

MOSCOW, April 6 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday defended its decision to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, rejecting criticism of the move by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the U.S.-led transatlantic alliance was the one expanding towards Russia, not the other way round, and therefore Moscow had to take steps to defend its own security.

Russia: Putin, Lukashenko hold talks on defense, economic ties

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart on Thursday discussed expanding the economic cooperation and bolstering the defense ties between their nations, which include a plan to deploy Russia’s nuclear weapons to Belarus amid the fighting in neighboring Ukraine.

The Kremlin talks involved senior officials from both countries and followed Putin’s one-on-one meeting with President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday.

Quadripartite meeting on Syria agrees to continue consultations

Participants in the quadripartite meeting held at the level of deputy foreign ministers of Turkiye, Russia, Iran and Syria have agreed to continue consultations regarding Syria, Anadolu news agency reported.

The agency quoted diplomatic sources as saying that Moscow hosted the meeting on Monday and Tuesday.

Russia open to global partnership; has no intention to isolate itself — Putin

MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/:  Russia is open to constructive cooperation with all countries and has no desire to isolate itself, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

"I would like to stress Russia is open to constructive partnership with all countries; we do not intend to isolate ourselves from anyone, we have no preconceived or what's more hostile intentions towards anyone," Putin said.

"We hope that our partners will adhere to the principles of equality and mutual benefit in their relations with us," the president stated.

Russia does not meddle in US affairs, 'they’re fine without us' — Lavrov about Trump case

MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/:  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated on Wednesday that Moscow does not interfere in Washington’s affairs.

When asked for a comment on the legal proceedings against former US President Donald Trump, Lavrov said: "Haven’t you just said it yourself? We don't interfere. The way I see it, they're fine without us." He was talking to Pavel Zarubin, the host of the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" program on the TV channel Rossiya-1.

Zarubin uploaded an extract from Lavrov’s comment to his Telegram channel.

Russia: Putin berates US and EU envoys, top official says US aid fuelling Ukraine war's 'hot phase'

April 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told the new U.S. and EU ambassadors in blunt language on Wednesday that their countries were responsible for a dramatic deterioration in relations since Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine last year.

The ambassadors were among 17 who presented their diplomatic credentials to Putin at a televised ceremony in the Kremlin.

Putin told new U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy that U.S. support for a revolution in Ukraine in 2014 had led to the current situation where Russia and Ukraine were in conflict.

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