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Moscow - Germany and France may become the first countries outside of the former Soviet space visited by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin will make his first foreign trip to Belarus on May 31. The agreement was reached at the Moscow negotiations with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

The president may go to Germany and France right after the visit to Belarus, the Vedomosti newspaper said with the reference to Kremlin sources.

Putin will come to St. Petersburg from Europe to take part in the Russia-EU summit. He will go east afterwards. The president will visit Uzbekistan and then attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing on June 6-7.

Putin may visit Kazakhstan on the way back from China.