MINSK. Oct 2 (Interfax) - Roadmaps in the framework of the program of deepening the integration of Belarus and Russia should be worked out on the principles of the sovereign equality of the two states, chairman of the Council of the Republic of the Belarusian National Assembly Mikhail Myasnikovich said on Wednesday.
"Our operations should take into account approaches to deepening integration with the Russian Federation formulated in the updated program of action. The government and National Bank together with MPs and other interested parties are to work out over 30 Belarusian-Russian roadmaps regulating social and economic operations in the Union State on the principles of sovereign equality of member-states," Myasnikovich said at the opening session of the upper house of parliament.
At the end of December 2018, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev initiated the updating of the 1999 Union Treaty in response to a proposal of his Belarusian colleague Sergei Rumas to discuss the size and form of compensating the losses of Belarus from a tax maneuver in Russia.
On September 6, Medvedev and Rumas initialed a package of documents on the joint steps of the two countries to implement the Union State Treaty that will be submitted to the presidents of the two countries at the beginning of December. The two presidents are expected to sign a program of integration on December 8 when the 20th anniversary of the Treaty will be marked.