Alyaksandr Tsimashenka, a spokesperson for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said that the matter was indeed under discussion.

The agreement is expected to be signed at a meeting that the Belarusian-Russian Union State’s Council of Ministers

Sergei Kiriyenko, director general of Russia’s Federal Agency for Atomic Energy (Rosatom), raised the matter at a forum of the Russian nuclear industry’s exports.

Alyaksandr Tsimashenka said that he “does not rule out that the nuclear power plant project may be raised during the talks.” “But the signing of the document has not yet been placed on the meeting’s agenda.”