The Kremlin sent Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Minsk on Nov. 26, 2020, likely to secure the implementation of Union State integration concessions that self-declared Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made on September 14. Lukashenko reaffirmed his commitments to Moscow after Lavrov reminded him about his concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin from their Sept. 14 meeting in Sochi. Lukashenko apparently agreed to a plan for coordinating Belarusian and Russian foreign policy and committed to the creation of a single market for natural gas.
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Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko signs a document during his inauguration ceremony in Minsk on Sept. 23, 2020.
