According to him, the department sees that “the neighbor is in a difficult financial situation” and interacts with Belarusian colleagues.

Siluanov stressed that now the main task is to stimulate the integration process.

“Therefore, today this is the most important thing on the agenda, but I do not exclude the possibility that we will be able to provide some types of support to our Belarusian partners, if necessary,” the head of the Interfax ministry quotes.

Earlier, Prime Ministers of Belarus and Russia Roman Golovchenko and Mikhail Mishustin discussed issues of trade and economic cooperation by phone.