Expanded talks involving Russian and Belarusian delegations were held after a conversation between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko. The sides discussed the future development of the Union, long-term cooperation issues and summed up the results of the first five years of the Russian-Belarusian Union.
After the meeting of the Supreme State Council, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko signed an address to the peoples of both countries in connection with the Day of Russian-Belarusian Unity.
Supreme State Council resolutions were signed on the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State; the action programme for its implementation in 2000 and tasks for the 2001 period; the budget of the Union State for 2001; the plan for the Supreme State Council’s work in 2001; on the Supreme State Council’s address “On the Situation in the Union State and Its Development” to members of the Russian and Belarusian Parliaments.
The Deputy Prime Ministers of Russia and Belarus signed an agreement on establishing the bilateral financial-industrial group Aerospace Equipment in the presence of Presidents Putin and Lukashenko.
That same day, President Putin presented the Order “For Services to the Fatherland”, 2nd Class, to Alexander Lukashenko. He said the Union State had passed several stages in its development and expressed hope that the Union would develop still further.