Union State focuses on five production sectors

MOSCOW, 13 December (BelTA) – The Council of Ministers of the Belarus-Russia Union State has focused on five areas of the industrial economy, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told reporters reviewing the session of the Union State Council of Ministers that was held in Moscow on 12 December, BelTA has learnt.

“Taking into consideration that we often take up many things and do not finish some of them, we decided to focus on five sectors. They include mechanical engineering, agriculture, science, pharmaceutics and biotechnologies, as well as development of new materials,” Grigory Rapota said.

Talking about the results of the session, he informed that the Union State budget for 2013 was approved, other financial issues were resolved. “Those were technicalities, but it was important to address them,” the State Secretary said. He added that the list of the Union State programs was updated to include some new ones to be implemented in 2013.