“We hope that by the end of the year there will still be some kind of contact at the level of the leaders of our countries and they will determine certain solutions on these topics,” TASS quoted his statement on the television channel Belarus 1.
Krutoy noted that the arguments of the parties are clear and now a political solution to these issues is required.
Earlier, the Kremlin did not rule out that Putin and Lukashenko could phone up to the New Year to resolve the issue of gas supplies.
The expert Alexander Shatko, in an interview with PolitExpert, called the issue of integration with Russia a priority of Belarus’s foreign policy.