BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

02/08/2006

Belarus President calls GUAM and CIS destructive forces

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko considers GUAM (alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as destructive forces.

APA's Eastern Europe bureau reports Lukashenko said during the meeting with ambassadors to foreign states the territory once called 1/6 of the earth today has become the scene of the most intensive global struggle for energy carriers, military involvement and power. He said the characteristic feature of this fighting is that it has no rule.

Belarus President also said very complicated domestic and external processes are ongoing in the Post-soviet arena today.

"There are interior and external attempts to not even "shake" the CIS but also lead these countries to various political barricades and provoke conflicts among them. I mean the transformation of the GUAM. Since they want to make the CIS collapse in such a way, no one needs this," Lukashenko said.

He said the Belarusian government supports guaranteeing stability, confidence, welfare and prospects of its people and other CIS states and it is necessary to join integration processes./APA/

Source:

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=12715

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