MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th December, 2018) Russian President Vladimir Putin has wished a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, noting that the two countries were continuing their efforts aimed at strengthening their Union State, the Kremlin said on Sunday.
"When congratulating President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, the head of the Russian state noted that ... Russian-Belarusian cooperation was successfully developing in the political, economic, humanitarian spheres and other fields, [that] the work aimed at strengthening the Union State was continuing along with close coordination of efforts in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union, CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] and CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization]," the Kremlin said.
