BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

11/01/2010

Lukashenko wants new national security concept faster

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko ordered efforts on Monday to speed up work to draft a new national security concept citing global political and economic challenges.

Though he said much work had been done jointly with Russia in defense and security, including the Zapad 2009 drills the two neighbors held in September, that was not enough.

"I think the need has arisen to draft a fundamental agreement that should regulate the provision of security for the Belarusian state," Lukashenko said at a conference on the ex-Soviet country's defense capability in the capital, Minsk.

What Lukashenko described as drastic global changes was emerging centers of power, growing competition for access to natural reserves and the persisting economic crisis.

He said the new national security concept should maintain the continuity with earlier documents adopted in the sphere and become a basis for future strategies.

MINSK, January 11 (RIA Novosti)

Source:

http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100111/157510325.html


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