Nazarbayev to host Lukashenka, Putin in Astana on March 20
The meeting was initially scheduled for March 12-13 but cancelled for unclear reasons, while Vladimir Putin stopped appearing in public.
Aliaksandr Lukashenka, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Vladimir Putin will meet in Astana on March 20. The three state leaders were supposed to meet on March 12-13 but the meeting was cancelled in the middle of the last week. “The Presidents’ tight schedule” was the reason for it, RIA Novosti reports quoting Kazakhstani President’s press secretary Davuren Abayev as saying.
Belarus and Russia confirmed their participation, he claimed. No meeting was planned at all, Lukashenka’s press service told Euroradio a week ago.
Mass media presented a number of explanations for the meeting cancellation. All of them were connected with Vladimir Putin who had stopped appearing in public a week before. The Russian President is supposed to meet Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev in Saint Petersburg today, on March 16.
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