BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

15/12/2008

Csto, Military Cooperation With Russia Are Belarus' Security Priorities - Lukashenko

MINSK. Dec 15 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko views Belarus' involvement in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the creation of a single defense space with Russia as the most important areas of ensuring the country's security.

"The strengthening of national security is envisioned in various areas. The most important one is the participation in international security systems, primarily the CSTO, as well as the creation of a single defense space with Russia; and naturally the independent resolution of the country's security tasks," Lukashenko told a meeting of the Belarusian Security Council in Minsk on Monday.

The president stressed that the state will not save on security, but "every action and every ruble should be calculated."

"The foreign situation and domestic conditions that influence Belarus' security" have changed in recent years, he said.

"The international law can no longer protect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of a statement that lacks sufficient power to repel aggression," Lukashenko said, noting that "some countries recognize war as an acceptable foreign political instrument."

"Belarus maintains the adherence to the goals and the ideas of the comprehensive nuclear disarmament, the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the destruction of all relevant technologies," Lukashenko said, adding that Belarus "speak for building a new European security architecture, which will take in to account state interests."

Source:

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/2883682

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