Lukashenko demands that Russia abandon its “imperial habits”
Belarus will not enter the ruble zone and puts forward its own conditions for the creation of a single currency, which is spelled out in the Union Treaty with Russia.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated this today in an interview with the Mir television and radio company, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Okay, it’s not a question what ruble it will be. The question is where the emission center will be. And not even where, but who will manage the emission center. It will be on equal terms, or, since Russia is big, it will manage its own ruble, and we will liquidate ours and join them. We already went through this in the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I don't want to repeat this. This is the first thing. And secondly, where will our sovereignty be then?” Lukashenko is quoted as saying by his official website.
He proposes to create some kind of new “neutral” currency.
“If Russia today, having abandoned these imperial ambitions (we are big, and you are small), is ready for this, let’s negotiate, let’s decide,” Lukashenko said.
Let us recall that Lukashenko twice disrupted the signing of documents on integration with Russia, which provided for the creation of supranational bodies. Including the unified emission center. He motivated this by the threat to the independence of Belarus.
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