Lukashenko expects to counter sanctions through joint economic planning with Russia
<p> MINSK, Mar 2 - PrimePress. Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko expects to resist Western sanctions through joint economic planning with Russia. He said this on March 2 during a meeting on Belarusian-Russian cooperation in the military sphere, the president’s press service reported. </p> <p> </p> <p> “We want to build relations that will make us immune to any sanctions. Sanctions against Russia were introduced yesterday, sanctions against Belarus - the day before yesterday,” the Belarusian leader noted. “Listen, we can feed 150 million people on this territory, can’t we? Sure thing! We analyzed the situation [during negotiations with Putin on Feb 22 in Sochi] from all angles. We concluded that we just need to plan things, like Chinese and Japanese do. As far as it is possible, we need to draw economic development plans,” said Lukashenko. </p> <p> <br> “Literally, all aspects of our cooperation were thoroughly analyzed,” Lukashenko said. </p> <p> </p> <p> In his words, the meeting with Putin focused on interaction in the Union State, cooperation, defence partnership, joint projects, measures to respond to various threats, including external ones. </p> <p> </p> <p> In his words, the ministries of defence and foreign affairs of Belarus and Russia set an example of cooperation for other government bodies to follow. “We will continue to coordinate topical issues of our defence policy, foreign policy. We are determined (we shared this opinion) to make the Union State a perfect association of Belarus and Russia. No one will reproach us for impinging upon somebody’s independence, sovereignty. We will do it in a beautiful and decent manner,” Lukashenko said. </p> <p> </p> <p> He responded to speculations about the likely merger of Russia and Belarus. “The world has changed so much that the talks about Belarus joining Russia, or Russia joining Belarus, or any other kind of merger with single administration…. The world has changed so much that it would be foolish even to consider it. Secondly, it is absolutely unnecessary. As a sovereign independent state, we can build elations that will be even stronger than the relations between administrative entities in the Russian Federation,” said Lukashenko. End </p>
2021-03-03
Primepress
Lukashenko expects to counter sanctions through joint economic planning with Russia
MINSK, Mar 2 - PrimePress. Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko expects to resist Western sanctions through joint economic planning with Russia. He said this on March 2 during a meeting on Belarusian-Russian cooperation in the military sphere, the president’s press service reported.
“We want to build relations that will make us immune to any sanctions. Sanctions against Russia were introduced yesterday, sanctions against Belarus - the day before yesterday,” the Belarusian leader noted. “Listen, we can feed 150 million people on this territory, can’t we? Sure thing! We analyzed the situation [during negotiations with Putin on Feb 22 in Sochi] from all angles. We concluded that we just need to plan things, like Chinese and Japanese do. As far as it is possible, we need to draw economic development plans,” said Lukashenko.
“Literally, all aspects of our cooperation were thoroughly analyzed,” Lukashenko said.
In his words, the meeting with Putin focused on interaction in the Union State, cooperation, defence partnership, joint projects, measures to respond to various threats, including external ones.
In his words, the ministries of defence and foreign affairs of Belarus and Russia set an example of cooperation for other government bodies to follow. “We will continue to coordinate topical issues of our defence policy, foreign policy. We are determined (we shared this opinion) to make the Union State a perfect association of Belarus and Russia. No one will reproach us for impinging upon somebody’s independence, sovereignty. We will do it in a beautiful and decent manner,” Lukashenko said.
He responded to speculations about the likely merger of Russia and Belarus. “The world has changed so much that the talks about Belarus joining Russia, or Russia joining Belarus, or any other kind of merger with single administration…. The world has changed so much that it would be foolish even to consider it. Secondly, it is absolutely unnecessary. As a sovereign independent state, we can build elations that will be even stronger than the relations between administrative entities in the Russian Federation,” said Lukashenko. End