Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko urged the countries of the former USSR who wanted to have nuclear weapons to unite and join the Union State.
“If someone is worried … (President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart, – ed.) I don’t think Tokayev is worried about this … But our relations with the Russian Federation, if suddenly no one objects to being so close to Kazakhstan and other countries. It’s simple: Belarus and Russia must join the union, and that’s all, and there will be nuclear weapons for everyone, ”said the Belarusian leader in Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” in an interview with Pavel Zarubin on the channel “Russia 1”.
Part of the conversation was broadcast on Zarubin’s Telegram channel.
The Belarusian president added that he expressed his opinion, which may not coincide with the position of all Russians.
“But I think it’s possible. We have to strategically understand that we have a unique chance to unite,” Lukashenka concluded.
Lukashenko previously thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for the nuclear weapons deployed on his country’s soil.
On May 25, he announced that the transfer of non-strategic nuclear weapons from the Russian Federation to the territory of Belarus has already begun. “Storage areas etc. We had to prepare. “We did it, so the movement of nuclear weapons has already begun,” he said. To the question of whether non-strategic nuclear weapons are already on the territory of Belarus, the politician answered “Maybe”.
The Presidents of the Russian Federation and Belarus met in Moscow after the working dinner of the leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union. Negotiations took place behind closed doors in a one-on-one format.
Lukashenko was on a working visit to Moscow from May 24-25.
“Even nuclear weapons are one”
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Forum, noting the existence of the “fact” of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in the structure of the EAEU, “they even have a nuclear weapon.”
“A unique precedent or phenomenon has been created in world political history, if you wish, the creation of a state according to the formula “two countries – one state” – a single political, legal, military, economic, monetary, cultural. the humanitarian field. One union government, one union parliament, and I’m sorry, even nuclear weapons are now in two. So there is another level of integration represented by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, and we have to take this fact into account,” he said.
Zauresh Battalova, member of the Council of Senators of the Kazakh Senate, today in response to Lukashenka’s proposal statedThe unification of countries on the basis of the proliferation of nuclear weapons is absurd.
Moscow and Minsk signed an agreement on the creation of the Union State in December 1999, but the integration process has become most active in the last two years.