Union State Secretary of State Dmitry Mezentsev. Archival photoGRODNO, July 1The joint response of Russia and Belarus to Western sanctions lies in the solidarity of positions, State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev told RIA Novosti. «Everything that is being done now is the answer to sanctions The cohesion of the positions of regions, parliaments, governments, greater attention to the programs of the union state, a fundamentally different demand for the union state, the possibilities of the union treaty, which, as before, as a well-thought-out, balanced, very realistic document, has a certain strategic significance,» Mezentsev said on the margins of IX Forum of the Regions of Belarus and Russia, answering a question about the joint response of the two countries to sanctions. According to him, the meetings of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko demonstrate «the intention that the independent states of Belarus and Russia will show that integration agenda, which will still be an example for many states that today render that unrighteous sanctions pressure on our countries, trying to break down our national economies and achieve social instability.» «They won't succeed,» Mezentsev concluded. >Russia and Belarus will soon complete the process of abolishing roaming, said Mezentsev
