We are against deploying Russian base to Belarus – Lukashenka to US delegation

We are against deploying a Russian military base to Belarus, president Alyaksandr Lukashenka said at Tuesday’s meeting with a group of US analysts.

“Since you are experts in the field of foreign policy as well as military and political issues, I do not need to explain what we might face in case of any military confrontation between the West and the East. Our country is not interested any conflicts, either current or frozen, either in the neighbours’ territory or in ours,” Lukashenka said.

Lukashenka and US experts. Phot. belta.by

According to him, the military doctrine of Belarus is of purely defensive nature and Belarus will never threaten its neighbours.

Belarus might be in a military alliance with Russia, but there are no Russian military bases in its territory, Lukashenka stressed.

“The reason for our not placing this base is not our willingness to show you or someone else that we are sovereign and independent. We are not deploying it, because it is not needed here,” the Belarusian leader said.

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In his opinion, at the moment it is necessary to invite any other states’ forces to the territory of Belarus, including Russia, so that they would perform ‘our functions’. “That is why we are dead set against such deployment, not to speak of an air base,” Lukashenka said.

Interestingly, a few days earlier, president Lukashenka warned that Belarusians and Russians would have to ‘set up bases in a counter-move’ if a US military base was located in Poland.

US military experts are visiting Belarus on November 5-6. Their itinerary includes a meeting at the Belarusian Defense Ministry, as well as attending Minsk-based Suvorov Military School, High-Tech Park, the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War.

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