Lukashenko makes predictions for 2023

The coming 2023 will be the happiest and most successful year, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told reporters as he arrived at the CIS informal meeting, BelTA has learned.

When asked what 2023 will be like, the president said: "The happiest, the most successful. Don't worry, everything will be fine."

The president was also asked how he was doing before the summit. "I am OK," Aleksandr Lukashenko replied. He noted that as the New Year is drawing closer, the mood is growing more joyful: "It can't be better. It will be the best on the New Year's Eve."

The venue of the CIS summit is the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The library is located in the center of St. Petersburg in the historical building of the Synod on Senate Square. The library building is often used for such meetings and summits.

Such meetings of heads of state in the run-up to New Year have already become a good tradition. Russian President Vladimir Putin invited his counterparts to meet in St. Petersburg at the end of the year as he attended the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union in Bishkek on 9 December.