MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. Integration between Moscow and Minsk will be able to counter pressure of western sanctions comparable with an economic war, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday.
"I am confident development of integration in the Union State will give an efficient response to new challenges related to the sanction pressure from unfriendly states, comparable with the total economic war," Mishustin said during talks with his Belarusian counterpart Roman Golovchenko.
"We are taking coordinated measures in this situation, aimed at protecting the economic security and the technological sovereignty of Russia and Belarus, and are speeding up implementation of 28 Union programs approved by Presidents at the meeting of the Supreme State Council last November. The systemic effort to implement these Union programs was established down the line of ministries and departments of Russia and Belarus," the Prime Minister said. More than a half of 989 planned efforts have already been completed to date, he noted.
"Despite the challenging foreign economic situation and crisis phenomena in the global economy, the trade turnover between Russia and Belarus is demonstrating steady growth," Mishustin said.
Moscow and Minsk are successfully implementing large joint economic projects from the strategic standpoint, the Prime Minister said, citing the Belarusian cargo transit agreement as an example. "It will increase capacity utilization of the Russian transport infrastructure and open new opportunities for export from Belarus in the environment of restrictions in trade from the part of the European Union and other unfriendly states, Mishustin added.