Belarus announced a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State in April-May

"The Supreme State Council is tentatively scheduled to be held in April-May," the statement said.

It is expected that during the meeting the existing agreements will be formalized, and before that, the presidents of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, will discuss a range of topical issues during the meeting.

Earlier it became known that Putin and Lukashenko had a telephone conversation.

The leaders of the states agreed to set a date for the meeting in the near future.