“Indeed, on the sidelines of the summit, Putin and Lukashenko spoke briefly and decided to hold a separate full-scale meeting in the near future,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the BelTA agency announced the beginning of the meeting between Putin and Lukashenko in the Kremlin.
On May 16, it became known that Putin, within the framework of the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, would hold bilateral meetings with the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan - Alexander Lukashenko, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Sadyr Zhaparov.