Belarus, Russia develop joint space exploration program
MINSK. Aug 12 (Interfax) - The Russia-Belarus Union has drafted a joint space exploration program entitled Monitoring-SG, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Director Vladimir Popovkin said at a meeting with Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich in Minsk on Friday.
"As a follow-up [to previous programs], we have prepared a new program for a 2012-2016 period," Popovkin said.
"Belarus and Russia have agreed on practically all issues. Only two most difficult ministries remain - the finance ministries of Belarus and Russia," he said.
Popovkin proposed discussing the new space exploration program at a session of the union's Council of Ministers in Moscow on August 15.
"I would like you to outline these questions in order to enable us to sign this program at the end of the year," Popovkin said.