Lukashenko Set to Discuss with Xi Speed in Implementation of Plans for Cooperation

According to the Belarusian leader, Minsk is very interested in China as a powerful country

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko Ilya Pitalev/POOL/TASS

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MINSK, December 4. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he was planning to discuss how fast plans for the development of bilateral cooperation could be implemented at a meeting in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

"When I was preparing for this visit, I asked my colleagues about what needs to be done, what things are not moving forward so that I could tell the [Chinese] leader about these things. We did not find a single issue. Progress has been made across the board," BelTA news agency quoted the Belarusian president as saying. "The only issue that I would like to discuss with you today is speed," he added.

According to Lukashenko, Belarus is very interested in China as a powerful country. "And this is not only our interest, this is the interest of the entire planet, because lots of talented, hardworking people live here [in China]," Lukashenko noted.

Lukashenko is staying in China on a working visit on December 3-4.