OREANDA-NEWS. December 21, 2007. The socio-economic development forecast for 2008 will be considered at a session of Union’s Council of Ministers which will be held in Moscow on December 26, reported the Official website www.government.by. 

“We should consider 17 issues. The socio-economic development forecast of the Belarus-Russia Union State is the most important of them. The budget for 2008 has been already adopted. There is a need to consider the balance of fuel-energy resources which is being agreed by experts now,” Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky noted during his meeting with State Secretary of the Union State Pavel Borodin. According to him, Belarus proposed to consider 4 additional issues concerning the international transport communication and industrial subsidies granting.

According to the Head of the Belarusian Government, the session will sum up the work of the Union State in 2007, outline the development prospects, discuss the draft agreements which will allow the economies of Belarus and Russia to develop more dynamic.