Lukashenko called on the CSTO countries to be like the USSR
The CSTO countries can live independently of the whole world, “like the USSR.”
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today in Minsk at a meeting with the foreign ministers of the CSTO member countries, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We need to understand that they will put pressure on us. Even if the conflict in Ukraine ends, they will still not leave us behind. We need to develop a general, I’ll call it, plan. It should be aimed at us being isolated, like the Soviet Union. But we must survive, we must determine what we can produce for ourselves. Almost everything, 90 percent. Worse or better, but we will produce it. The President of Russia and I discussed these points.
But we will somehow tumble around and purchase 10% until we move away from dependence on imports. But we need to develop such a general plan, and so that everyone sees themselves in this plan,” Lukashenko said.
If the CSTO countries do not support this proposal, only Russia and Belarus will go autonomous.
“If you don’t agree, I think the President of Russia and I are not too far off to make this plan for two. Of course, we will not have 90% self-sufficiency, but let it be 80%. We have no other way. Just floundering, staggering from side to side and hoping that someone will come to us again, create something, and then rush and leave - we don’t have time for that,” Lukashenko said.
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