Lukashenka set to meet Hugo Chavez in Russia
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenka next week will take part as a guest of honor among 11 other heads of state from the former Soviet countries in an open meeting of the Russian State Council in the southern city of Rostov-on Don. The meeting will be presided over by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will also be in Rostov as a guest of honor.
The Venezuelan leader is expected to continue talks about the expansion of cooperation with the local helicopter plant, which has already supplied 9 helicopter gunships MI-35M and cargo helicopters MI-26T.
Sources close to the government suggest that it is while in Russia when Lukashenka will introduce Viktar Sheiman as Belarus's new envoy to Venezuela. Viktor Sheiman, a long-time Lukashenka's henchman, was recently dissmissed from his high-ranking post of the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, reports AFN.
The Venezuelan leader is expected to continue talks about the expansion of cooperation with the local helicopter plant, which has already supplied 9 helicopter gunships MI-35M and cargo helicopters MI-26T.
Sources close to the government suggest that it is while in Russia when Lukashenka will introduce Viktar Sheiman as Belarus's new envoy to Venezuela. Viktor Sheiman, a long-time Lukashenka's henchman, was recently dissmissed from his high-ranking post of the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, reports AFN.
