MINSK. Oct 9 (Interfax) - The participants in a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on Tuesday had no disagreements on international agenda items, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Wednesday.
"We had an opportunity to discuss global matters yesterday and the day before yesterday. Hot spots on our planet. What delighted me, and I am sure you too, is that we had no disagreements on the international agenda," Belarus's BelTA state news agency quoted Lukashenko as saying.
"We also discussed internal [matters], and the conversation was candid, without any obliquities," he said.
Addressing Putin, Lukashenko said, "You talked a lot about an Azerbaijani-Armenian settlement process. To my surprise, all of that was accepted quite well. This shows that a lot of work had been done beforehand."
"We discussed both global and regional matters. There was also unanimity on the whole," Lukashenko said.
Western countries have been unsuccessful in trying to strangle Belarus economically and financially, Lukashenko said.
"As concerns our [Belarusian-Russian] relations, I believe the main conclusion is this: the West set itself the goal of strangling us chiefly economically and financially, but it hasn't succeeded. They've admitted this themselves," he said.