“There is no way to cut back.
We just need to increase funding, based on the most relevant principles and areas of our work in the economy: import substitution and so on,” BelTA quoted him as saying at a meeting with State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev.
Lukashenka stressed that the main issue on the bilateral agenda should be the implementation of sectoral programs.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced the arrival of another echelon with military equipment from Russia to build up the regional Belarusian-Russian group of troops.
State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Alexander Volfovich specified that the Belarusian-Russian regional grouping of troops is designed to protect the western borders of the Union State of the two countries.