OREANDA-NEWS. March 21, 2008. Belarus and Russia intend to identify a new area of economic cooperation, chairman of the government of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov said at a session of the Union State Council of Ministers.

Over the past four years the bilateral trade doubled to \\$26 billion in 2007. “Yet the potential has not been tapped to the full. Today we intend to consider the ways of exploiting this potential,” the Russian Premier said.

According to him, the agenda of the session includes the tariff and non-tariff regulation in the Union State, the course of implementation of the Union State programmes, the rules and principles of providing agriculture subsidies, military -political interaction, defence capacity of the countries.