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G. Rapota: This is a very good project, which is designed to create a common statehood. However, before approaching the issue of common statehood, it was necessary to resolve a number of very serious problems. It has been recorded in all the principal documents. It was necessary to create a single social field for the citizens of Belarus and Russia. This includes free movement, the freedom to choose the place of employment, residence and studies. In other words, it was creating conditions so that Belarusians in Russia and Russians in Belarus do not feel strangers. Another group of issues concerns economic integration. Our goal is to create a single field for Russian and Belarusian business, for the industrial, financial and banking systems. There are also foreign policy goals - specifically, to harmonize our foreign policy efforts on the international arena. There are military-political and scientific and technical goals. Only after they were achieved, there will be grounds to speak about the formation of the Union State, the passage of a constitutional act, the introduction of a single currency and so on and so forth.
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