The press service of the Government of Russia reported that meeting between Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko during the working visit of Prime Minister of Russia to Belarus on March 16 was not planned.
A representative of the press service described as «baseless fabrications» reports of some media that the president of Belarus specially went to Venezuela in order to avoid a meeting with Putin, RIA Novosti.
According to Internet resource gazeta.ru, «President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko before Vladimir Putin’s visit to Minsk suddenly went to Venezuela.» «Instead negotiations with Putin, Lukashenko chose to meet with Hugo Chavez, who agreed to sell Belarus 80 thousand barrels of oil daily. Venezuelan oil will be the replacement of Russian», — the newspaper writes.
