LUKASHENKA TOOK HIS SON KOLYA ALONG FOR MEETING WITH ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

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March 16 2009

ONT TV channel showed meeting of Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Armenian
president Serzh Sargsyan. The Belarusian ruler was holding his youngest
son in his arms.

A report about the talks was shown on March 13-14. The child was
looking at the camera with no emotions on his face while his father
was talking with the Armenian president.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka said at the meeting with Serzh Sargsyan: "We
are the closet allies, we have no themes, close for negotiating,
beginning from military and technical cooperation and ending with
economic, financial, and trading questions. We have never hidden this,
it would be silly to do so."

"Mass media, our, yours, and foreign, are building different schemes
of our meeting and talks," A. Lukashenka noted. Those who worry, let
not worry. I have come to the fraternal state. I am met in a proper
way. In our country we treat you as a dear friend. We know well how
the Armenians live here and at ours. We have never created problems."

"We are twin-nations. We have lived in the same state for a long time,
after we gained independence, we have joined the same organizations –
the Collective Security Treaty Organization," S. Sargsyan noted. In
his view, the dialog is more effective when the chief executives take
part in it. The Armenian president thinks the relations between the
two countries need "positive impact" amid the global crisis.

A. Lukashenka has been staying in Armenia since March 11. The visit
of the Belarusian dictator to Armenia has become continuation of
his vacations he had begun in Serbia. Lukashenka is now skiing in
Tsakhkadzor.