He said this at the opening of an exhibition of archival records on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the reunification of the peoples of Russia and Belarus.
“In the face of unprecedented pressure from the collective West, our two states are strengthening union integration, are working to form a single socio-economic, migration, defense space,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
In June, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he had reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to tightly control the process of import substitution.