Russian, Belarusian presidents meet soon to discuss cooperation projects

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has said that he discussed two cooperation projects on the production of aircraft and on the construction of a railway line in the direction of the ports of the Leningrad region with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The sides agreed to substantively discuss these projects on October 15 during a meeting in Kyrgyzstan, Kommersant reports.

“I spoke to the Russian president yesterday. We have agreed on two projects. We will meet in Kyrgyzstan and will talk about this in detail on October 15. The matter rested in the joint production of small-capacity aircraft, which are in great demand in the Russian Federation, the construction of the second railway line from Belarus to Leningrad. We will be able to transport huge volumes of cargo to your ports and from there work for the whole world,” President Lukashenko said at a meeting with the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, in Minsk.