🇷🇺🇧🇾 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held talks in Beijing (September 2, 2025)

💬 Vladimir Putin: Our trade and economic relations are doing quite well, but our trade with Belarus exceeds $50 billion. Russia does not have that many trade partners with trade volumes like that.

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We just worked together, literally yesterday, within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Tomorrow we will attend a parade to celebrate victory, which marked the end of World War II. This is also our common cause, in this particular case, we did it in conjunction with our Chinese friends.

This is an opportunity for us to discuss bilateral relations. I am very glad to have it.

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You said that no one can replace Russia for Belarus. I want to say in response that no one can replace Belarus for Russia either.

We have very close interstate relations, and good personal relations with you as well, though that may not be the most important thing. What truly matters is that the results of our joint work are clear, as I have already said.

From the standpoint of economic growth, and even structural improvement of the economy, we are accomplishing a lot, and doing it quite effectively. There are many promising areas for cooperation, primarily industrial cooperation. We will probably discuss this in more detail.

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