In Belarus they did not see the difference between Bolton and Patrushev
Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Stanislav Zas does not understand the excitement around the visit to Minsk of US Presidential Advisor John Bolton and the subsequent negotiations between the secretaries of the Security Councils of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus in Warsaw.
He stated this in an interview with the Belarus-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I don’t understand why there is such a fuss. Next week the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, my colleague Patrushev, is coming here, and there is no excitement. And then an adviser to the US President arrived, and some kind of excitement began. This is not entirely clear,” Zas noted.
He believes that both meetings are “normal steps of international cooperation both with the West and with the East, both with the NATO bloc and within the CSTO.”
“We do not live separated from this world and do not try to fence ourselves off from it with a wall. We must cooperate with our neighbors on all sides. Especially in matters of security. The person came to establish contacts and discuss specific issues. The conversation continued in Warsaw at the initiative of our partners. The dialogue was useful. We saw the interest of our partners,” Zas said.
The Secretary of the Security Council gave an interview after his meeting with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who stated that “the main issues that we resolve regarding security, of course, are in the union of Belarus and Russia.”
Let us recall that the meeting in Warsaw was enthusiastically greeted by both the pro-Western Belarusian opposition and the anti-Russian public in Ukraine, which dubbed the negotiations the creation of a “new Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.”
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