Moscow and Minsk have no plans to "dump" the decade-old project to create the Union State of Russia and Belarus, leaders of the two states said on Friday, RIA Novosti informs.
Russia and Belarus signed a deal to establish the Union State on December 8, 1999. Dmitry Medvedev and Alexander Lukashenko met on Friday for a meeting of the Union's ruling body, the Supreme State Council.
During the meeting, the two leaders also appointed Grigory Rapota, who has served as the Russian president's envoy to the Volga Federal District since 2007, to the post of the Union State's new state secretary.
Grigory Rapota appointed head of Russia-Belarus Union
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