GORKI - Russia and Belarus signed a set of agreements after a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus on Friday.
One of them is an accord under which the Russian government is to provide its Belarusian counterpart with a loan for building a nuclear power plant in Belarus.
Another is an agreement on control over the availability and use of military supplies under the December 2009 Treaty on the Development of Military Technological Cooperation between the two countries.
Friday’s documents also include a set of energy agreements, among them a contract on exports of natural gas from Russia to Belarus in 2012-2014 and a deal between Russia’s Gazprom and Belarus’ Beltransgaz on the transmission of natural gas through Belarusian territory in the same period.
Gazprom and the Belarusian State Committee for Property signed an agreement on the purchase of shares in Beltransgaz by the Russian firm.
One more agreement is a cooperation deal between Belarusian Automobile Plant and Russian company Mechel.
