Medvedev reprimanded Lukashenko
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, during a visit to Luxembourg, answered a question from journalists about the future of the union state with Belarus, reprimanding Alexander Lukashenko in absentia for his recent harsh statements against Moscow.
“It seems to me that we need to work on this, and not just say that Russia clearly doesn’t want anything, it’s all for a cover. If the founding fathers of the European Union had reasoned this way, there would be no European Union. In general, any alliance is based on trust, and not on comments about what someone is suspected of (what they came running and said in their ear). Not a very good way,” the press service of the Russian government quotes Medvedev.
According to the prime minister, the “advanced path” for Russia and Belarus is the implementation of the 1999 Union State Treaty.
“...We need to create those institutions that have not been created. And then we can say that this union took place. This can only happen if there is agreement between the two parties. It is impossible to force anyone there. And it’s pointless to talk about where the emission center will be, what the currency will be called, until the boring work of agreeing on the basic documents on the basis of which this union should work is carried out,” Medvedev emphasized.
Let us recall that the 1999 agreement stipulated that in the future Belarus and the Russian Federation should have a single currency, a single court, a single customs service, and a single parliament.
Among the points of the agreement was “carrying out a coordinated foreign and defense policy” - Minsk does not fulfill these obligations, for example, refusing to recognize Crimea, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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