Lukashenko abandoned the Union Treaty with Russia
Neither a joint parliament of Belarus and Russia, nor a joint government will be created.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated this today, speaking to deputies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If anyone is worried that tomorrow there will be a general parliament, there is not even any discussion on this topic. We do not engage in dialogue on political issues. We reached a friendly agreement with President Putin in Sochi more than a year ago. I tell him: we won’t get through these issues if we start discussing them. This is an exclusively economic agenda,” Lukashenko is quoted as saying by his official website.
The creation of a joint parliament and government is provided for by the Union Treaty, which Lukashenko signed with Boris Yeltsin in 1999. However, now, the Belarusian president believes, we need to proceed “not from the letter, but from the spirit of the agreement.”
“Really, by signing these documents, we were signing up to the fact that things would get worse for us every year. Complete absurdity. We signed up and joined the union, the basis of which today is and should be Russia, only in order to create our history together. And we understood that we would get from Russia what we needed, and they would get what they needed. And we signed these agreements. They just need to be fulfilled,” Lukashenko said.
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