Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev considers it premature to discuss the name of the Union State of the Russian Federation and Belarus currency. He also noted that no one forces anyone to integrate.
“There’s no point in talking about where the issuing center will be and what the currency of the [Union State] will be called, until the boring work to agree on the main documents on which this union should work is done,” Medvedev stressed during his visit to Luxembourg.
On the whole, Medvedev called the movement towards integration “normal and correct.” Responding to a request to comment on a number of recent critical statements on this subject of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Medvedev remarked: “It seems to me that we need to work on this, and not just say that “obviously Russia doesn’t want anything, it’s all a cover up.” If the founding fathers of the European Union had reasoned like this, then there would have been no European Union.”
Medvedev noted that in order to deepen the further integration of the two countries, “it is necessary to create the institutions that have not been created.” “This can happen only if there is an agreement between the two sides, it is impossible to force anyone to enter there,” the head of the Russian government stressed.
During the “Big Talk” on March 1, Lukashenka declared:
“Today we are being offered a joint currency. We are in favor of it. Of course, it will be the ruble. We have a ruble and you have a ruble. Why should we invent thaler? Only the question is not that. It will not be a Russian or Belarusian ruble. It will be our common ruble, if there is one.”
belsat.eu, TASS
