The Minsk meeting of the collegiums of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and Russia is important and well-timed, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said as he met with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 19 January, BelTA has learned.
“Our relations significantly strengthened over the past year. The leaders of the two countries set the highest pace. This helps us find solutions to fundamentally important issues. There is every reason to believe that such dynamics and effectiveness of contacts will remain in place this year,” the minister said.
“It is of particular importance to coordinate our actions within the so-called human rights framework: the UN Council on Human Rights, other mechanisms, where the West is clearly trying to politicize the debate, which should be based on the existing international humanitarian law,” the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.