BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

30/01/2006

Lukashenko denies obstructing formation of union state with Russia

MINSK. Jan 30 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko dismissed the claim that his country is obstructing the process of forming a union state with Russia.

"I am being reproached for undermining the union of Belarus and Russia and called the main enemy. That's all fiction. Let's look at the treaty on the formation of the union state and see who has done what," he said at a Tuesday meeting in Minsk with Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov.

Lukashenko said the problems in Belarusian-Russian relations "have nothing to do with the Russian people or the Russian state. There will be no departure from the centuries-old course. We have always been and will remain with fraternal Russia."

"Do you want to call us your outpost in the West? You can do it. But that also costs something," he added.

Lukashenko dismissed as unjustified the figures named by the Russian side to prove that it supports the Belarusian economy.

On the contrary "it remains to be calculated what we cost them [Russia] starting with Kaliningrad which was and remains on our shoulders, to say nothing of the military bases, and transit and the kopecks they are paying us for that," he said.

Source:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11668073

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