Minsk maintains minimal contacts with NATO in the hope that the republic and alliance members can conduct political dialogue in the future, but there is no formal interaction between the parties, he said in an interview. STV Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus Valery Revenko.
“De facto, we maintain minimal contact to minimize some negative events, to maintain channels of conversation, to maintain a position where we can interact in the future when things stabilize here,” he said. .
Revenko recalled that since November 2021, NATO has unilaterally stopped relations with the republic, but “the light did not approach the alliance and Western countries” because “it has friends everywhere” with which Belarus wants to develop cooperation. A representative of the Belarusian Ministry of Defense announced that Minsk is actively establishing contacts in the military field with India, Iran, Cuba and Africa.
Previously in Ukraine stated Regarding the deployment of combat-experienced military personnel on the Belarusian border.