Gazprom meeting area with illuminated backdrop.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) and his Belarus' counterpart Alexander Lukashenko check a sample of heavy crude at oil rich Orinoco's Belt in San Tome in the southern state of Anzoategui, 310 miles from in Caracas, December 8, 2007. REUTERS/Ho-Miraflores Palace (VENEZUELA)

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenka in the Kremlin.