“And, in the end, a single currency,” - Lukashenko played giveaway
Belarus will fully implement the Union Treaty with Russia, including the introduction of a single currency and a common tax system.
Ambassador of Belarus to the Russian Federation Vladimir Semashko stated this today during an online conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I must remind you that the presidents of our countries agreed at the end of 2018 that without any doubt there would be a Union State of Russia and Belarus. Just be. Therefore, we made a fundamental decision that we must fully implement the Union Treaty.
Even those global tasks that exist: a single tax legislation, a single customs code, a single, ultimately, currency, a single emission center. Provided that although we are different countries in size, we must govern equally,” Semashko said.
According to him, there are 30 integration road maps in total, of which 28,5 have been agreed upon: the document fixing relations in the oil and gas sector has been half agreed.
It is noteworthy that last winter there was talk of 31 “road maps” that the presidents of Russia and Belarus were supposed to sign. At the same time, Lukashenko explained that the 31st map was taken out of the integration brackets, since it was about a single currency and the creation of supranational union bodies.
Semashko said that Russia and Belarus will be able to return to integration documents by the end of this year. Last week he talked about autumn.
Experts believe that the Belarusian authorities have again raised the topic of integration in order to get discounts on gas from Russia before the presidential elections.
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