📆 On November 25, Moscow hosted an annual joint meeting of the Collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries. The other day, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov.
The ministers discussed key issues of collaboration between the national Foreign Ministries and diplomatic support to foster integration. They coordinated positions on a wide range of international issues. The Sides reaffirmed their determination to provide mutual allied support and to jointly uphold common interests on the global arena.
During the joint meeting of the Collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries, the Sides analysed the implementation of the previous meeting’s decisions and summed up preliminary results of implementing the bilateral programme of agreed-upon actions in the foreign policy of the States Parties to the Treaty on Establishing the Union State, in 2024-2026. The participants charted collaboration guidelines for jointly using humanitarian policy tools, promoting traditional values and preserving historical memory.
🤝 They agreed to continue closely coordinating expanded cooperation with friendly states and associations and jointly maintaining relations with unfriendly countries and organisations, including efforts to counter their aggressive policy of sanctions and legal aggression. The Sides agreed to expand joint efforts in providing information support for their foreign policy.
✍️ Following the meeting, they signed a resolution approved by both Collegiums and a Plan of consultations between the national Foreign Ministries in 2026.
The next joint meeting of the Collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries is scheduled to be held in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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🇷🇺🇧🇾 On January 16, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey LavrovreceivedAlexander Rogozhnik on the occasion of the completion of his mission as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation, following his appointment as Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.
The Parties noted with satisfaction the intensive nature of Russian-Belarusian political contacts at the highest and high levels, the progressive development of multifaceted bilateral collaboration, and the steady momentum in building the #UnionState.
They also highlighted close foreign policy coordination within the integration frameworks involving both countries and international organisations.
Sergey Lavrov highly commended the Ambassador’s personal role in advancing the entire spectrum of Russian-Belarusian relations and presented him with the Russian Foreign Ministry’s honorary badge — For Contribution to International Cooperation.
Given the dynamic advancement of interregional ties between the two nations, Sergey Lavrov expressed confidence in continued constructive engagement with Alexander Rogozhnik in his new and responsible role, for the benefit of the fraternal peoples of Russia and Belarus.
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🇷🇺🇧🇾 On December 8, 1999, Russia and Belarus signed the Treaty Establishing the Union State. This event ushered in a new stage in uniting our nations on the basis of principles of sovereign equality, voluntary and conscientious fulfilment of mutual obligations.
The Republic of Belarus is Russia’s closest ally and strategic partner. Our countries are linked by long-time traditions of friendship and mutual assistance, cultural and spiritual similarity, a common historical past and prospects for the future.
Allied relations between Moscow and Minsk are the benchmark of mutually beneficial integration collaboration. Over the years of expanding unification processes in the most diverse fields, the Union State has evolved into one of the most advanced and ambitious integration projects in Eurasia.
Our nations have made serious headway in establishing a common socioeconomic, transport, logistics, cultural, humanitarian, migration and information space. The Union State continues to steadily strengthen its financial, economic, scientific and technical sovereignty.
A solid foundation of mutual allied obligations to ensure defence, uphold the sovereignty, independence and constitutional system of Russia and Belarus, their territorial integrity and inviolability, and the inviolability of the external border (using all available forces and resources) has been laid.
On December 6, 2024, the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State approved the Security Concept of the Union State. President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a number of important landmark documents, including those on security guarantees within the framework of the Union State, on the sidelines of the meeting.
📄 Excerpts from the Joint Statement by the President of the Russian Federation and the President of the Republic of Belarus (March 13, 2025):
The Parties will continue to build up joint efforts to effectively respond to modern challenges and threats in order to strengthen the security of Russia and Belarus within the common defense space of the Union State.
In accordance with bilateral programmes of agreed-upon foreign policy activities, Russian and Belarusian diplomats closely coordinate their approaches and provide mutual support at multilateral platforms and voice identical or similar positions on virtually all matters at the UN and other international organisations.
Within the framework of annual joint meetings of Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries’ Collegiums, the Parties chart common approaches in various spheres of foreign policy interaction. The latest meeting was held in Moscow on November 25, 2025.
🤝 Our countries voice identical positions on virtually all key contemporary issues. Against the backdrop of unprecedented external pressure, our countries collaborate closely on the global stage, invariably providing genuine allied support to each other.
💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
Russia and Belarus actively cooperate across a variety of fields, coordinating their efforts in international affairs and consistently improving the Union State institutions.
I am confident that by acting together, we will overcome any challenges and further strengthen productive bilateral ties for the benefit of the Russian and Belarusian people, in the interests of ensuring stability and security in Eurasia.
🎊 We congratulate our colleagues and the fraternal people of Belarus on our common holiday! We wish them wellbeing and prosperity!
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’sopening remarks at talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov(Moscow, June 10, 2025)
💬 Mr Ryzhenkov,
Colleagues,
Friends,
We are glad to welcome the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus on his first official visit to the Russian Federation. We value the relationship between our countries, a relationship based on alliance, strategic partnership, good-neighbourliness, and mutual trust.
The unique nature of our bilateral relations was once again reaffirmed during our joint celebrations of the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Presidents of Russia and the Republic of Belarus, alongside other world leaders, participated in the Victory Parade on Red Square. Symbolically, Russian and Belarusian military personnel marched ceremoniously shoulder to shoulder in Moscow and Minsk. Joint processions were held in various cities of the Union State as part of the Belarus Remembers and Immortal Regiment events.
☝️ The dialogue between the two heads of state outlines the strategic course in all areas of cooperation, providing the essential momentum and guidance. It calls on all of us, as agencies responsible for implementing foreign policy objectives, to maintain regular contacts and develop a creative approach towards devising a tactical line.
Yesterday, we discussed a number of related issues. Today, we will certainly continue our discussion. Efforts by President Vladimir Putin and President Alexander Lukashenko set an example of importance of maintaining regular contacts. The scale and quality of our bilateral relations, as well as the challenges that arise as we seek to promote these relations, are such that a dialogue is needed on a regular basis.
I recall our meeting in Brest last November, when we held a joint Board meeting. This year, it is our turn to provide a platform for this joint event. Today, we will also discuss preparations for it.
Our inter-parliamentary and interregional dialogue continues to develop. This June, the Nizhny Novgorod Region will host the 12th Forum of Regions of Russia and Belarus on the theme “The Youth of Belarus and Russia as Heirs to the Great Victory and the Future of the Union State.” We will also witness the grand inauguration of your Consulate General in Nizhny Novgorod, a symbolic event in its own right. We are expanding the number of our diplomatic missions in each other's territory.
Our cultural, humanitarian, and spiritual ties play a vital role in reinforcing the foundation that unites our peoples. The recent visit by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to the Republic of Belarus served as yet another confirmation of this fact.
International issues are always part of our agenda. Yesterday, during our informal discussion, we also touched upon them. This includes matters related to our immediate environment, cooperation within the EAEU, CSTO and CIS, as well as activities at international venues, such as the UN and OSCE.
🌐 I want to highlight a new initiative put forward by Belarus, which Russia has strongly supported. I am referring to Eurasian security and the establishment of a regular annual dialogue on this crucial subject. Together with you, we are promoting a document that could serve as a foundation for further collective efforts. At this stage, we will actively uphold the need for precisely this approach to Eurasian security, an approach based on the recognition of equal and indivisible security for any state.
There is much to discuss, and I am pleased to see you.
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📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
Belarusian Cabinet approves program to upgrade regional troop support facilities in joint effort with Russia. Another step towards the mighty Union State! 🇧🇾🤝🇷🇺
But wait, there's more! Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reveals plans for a unified air defense system within the CSTO alliance. The strategic partnership between Russia and Belarus is now crucial, given NATO's hostile actions near our borders. 😤💪
Meanwhile, Abkhazia's President Aslan Bzhania expresses interest in joining the Union State. The family is growing! 🤝🌍
Stay tuned for more updates. The Union State is just getting started! 🚀✨
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🎙 Briefingby Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department Andrey Nastasin (Moscow, July 3, 2024)
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime’s war crimes
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Independence Day of Belarus
🔹 London and its loyalists
🔹 UN General Assembly resolution on World Swahili Language Day
🔹 World Olympic Day and the decline of the Olympic Movement
🔹 Results of the meeting of NATO defence ministers
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• On June 28, Zelensky extended greetings to Ukrainians on Constitution Day. It looked like a blatant mockery of the country’s citizens as well as its basic law. There is no way a person who has usurped power could be considered a guarantor of the Constitution in a democratic and law-based state.
❗️The road to Europe, which Zelensky covered in his “congratulations” much more extensively than the Constitution itself, is paved with dead Ukrainian citizens. <...> Condolences, not congratulations, are a far more suitable choice given the circumstances.
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• The European Council has adopted a time-serving and totally politicised decision to open accession negotiations with Moldova on June 25. The Moldovan authorities saw this as the approval of their anti-Russia policy and a free hand to continue turning the republic into a “European dictatorship” under the guise of fighting the non-existent Russian “hybrid threats.”
☝️ Chisinau’s persecution campaigns and arbitrary acts are promoting an increasingly negative reaction in society.
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• Today, 80 years after the liberation of Belarus from the invaders, joint search teams and law enforcement agencies of the Union State of Russia and Belarus discover new crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators.
👉 The enormous amount of work done by the two countries’ lawyers, historians and prosecutor’s offices made it possible to officially recognise the Nazi extermination policy during the war as a full-scale genocide of the Soviet people.
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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Today, Belarus, a state linked to Russia by centuries of fraternal friendship and bonds of mutual assistance, is marking Independence Day.
#OnThisDay in 1944, Minsk was liberated from Nazi German invaders and occupants as a result of well-coordinated Red Army operations. Fighting shoulder to shoulder, our nations made a decisive contribution to the Victory over Nazism.
Today, Russian-Belarusian relations are those of strategic partnership and alliance. Together, our countries continue to overcome serious difficulties and defend their interests on the international scene. They collaborate closely in the field of military and military-technical cooperation and in ensuring collective security.
Moscow and Minsk jointly streamline various institutions of the Union State and promote integration projects in the Eurasian region. Our countries voice common or similar positions on many international issues and cooperate closely in the #CSTO, the #EAEU, the #CIS, the #UN, the #OSCE and other international and regional organisations.
🤝 We congratulate the fraternal people of Belarus on the national holiday. We wish them well-being and prosperity.
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🇷🇺🇧🇾 On June 9-10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovheld talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov, who was on his first official visit in Moscow.
The talks were held in a traditionally trust-based and truly comradely atmosphere. The Ministers discussed a wide range of key issues of Russia-Belarus strategic partnership and alliance. They focused on diplomatic support for the integration process in the Union State. They voiced coinciding or quite similar positions, while considering current international and regional issues, including the resolution of the Ukraine crisis.
The Sides exchanged opinions regarding their future collaboration to forge a Greater Eurasian Partnership and new Eurasian security architecture. Following the meeting, Sergey Lavrov and Maxim Ryzhenkov signed a joint address to the foreign ministers of Eurasian states on drafting the Charter of Eurasian Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century. The Ministers reviewed, in great detail, issues of future integration within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO), the Eurasian Economic Union (#EEU), the Commonwealth of Independent States (#CIS) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO), as well as mutual collaboration at the United Nations Organisation and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (#OSCE).
Addressing a joint news conference, the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Belarus discussed, in great detail, the agreements reached by them.
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