inextricably linked and will always be associated for centuries with the name of yuri alekseevich gagarin dear dmitry dear colleagues, i am glad to welcome you all to moscow at a meeting of the council of ministers of the union state. well, first of all. i want to convey. to all of you, best wishes from president of russia putin, we are meeting a very important event, at the end of the week of the second of april of the unity of the peoples of russia a quarter of a century ago , an agreement was signed to create a community of our countries, it opened a new page in the common history and served as the beginning of integration construction in our union state. today we can say with confidence that the decision to form was the right one and justified itself. together, we are better able to jointly cope with the most complex challenges, the tasks that lie before us in various areas from ensuring security to improving the well-being of our citizens. and, of course, to resist external pressure. the deepening of the russian belarusian integration became the answer to it. and by the way, exactly this task was set