President: Belarus will keep protecting Union State

Regardless of how the Belarusian-Russian relations may evolve, Belarus has no intention of abandoning the responsibility for the Union State security, Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko told a press conference for top executives of Belarusian mass media today. “Whatever our relations may be, nobody has relieved us of the responsibility for the defensive capacity of the Union State, our common fatherland. If, god forbid, we should die to protect our land, we will not let tanks across our territory to Moscow”, he said. Alexander Lukashenko believes, any speculations about the security of the Belarusian and Russian nations, the defensive ability of the Union State are inadmissible. “We have no intention to use it as a leverage to put pressure on the neighbouring state”, stressed the president. He also noted, since the beginning of the recent conflict with the Russian Federation Russians rejected the position of the official authorities. “I want Russians to understand we have never been the traitors some moneymakers would like us to be”, added Alexander Lukashenko.

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