Russian-Belarusian integration is slowing down again
The Belarusian authorities declare the need to deepen integration processes in the CIS, but Minsk should start with itself.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes.
The publication draws attention to the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makei, who recently stated that the answer to global challenges “can and should be the strengthening of our regional integration” and added that the CIS states have “colossal potential” in this matter.
“Here Belarus could definitely start with itself,” the newspaper notes. – Its Union State with Russia is a real unfinished integration project. The Union Treaty is more than 20 years old, but it has still not been fully implemented. The process only moved forward this year. On September 10 in Minsk, Russian and Belarusian prime ministers Mikhail Mishustin and Roman Golovchenko approved 28 union programs for the economic integration of the two countries. It was expected that on November 4, at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, the programs would be approved by Presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko,” the publication notes.
In turn, an informed diplomatic source for the publication admitted that the entire package may not have time to be prepared for approval by the two leaders.
“According to him, this is quite a large amount of interdepartmental work, and the parties risk not meeting the deadline. That is, the pace of integration may slow down again, no matter what the explanation is,” the article says.
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