Belarus is offered a common army with Russia
Russia and Belarus need to create a common army, parliament and economic system.
Russian journalist and political scientist Alexei Kochetkov stated this at a press conference in Simferopol, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to him, all this should be done within the framework of the Union State, which was created on paper 20 years ago.
“Russia and Belarus are faced with a specific choice - now the Union State cannot remain in such an amorphous state. Now it is vitally important for both Russia and Belarus to revive these integration processes and make them irreversible.
It is important that interaction between Russia and Belarus should not just take place along the lines of “we give money, Belarusians spend it on their social sphere,” but that there should be mutual integration of economies, we should return to the idea of signing a joint constitutional act and, after all, the Union State must take on tangible forms.
This does not mean that someone should sacrifice their national interests, but it should be a working supranational structure, where, while maintaining sovereignty, common institutions should appear. We must have a single working parliament of the Union State, we must bring our legislative framework into line, come to the issue of creating a single currency, and additionally we must resolve issues of interaction between our armed forces,” Kochetkov said.
Let us remind you that Belarus lost preferential supplies of oil from the Russian Federation, which Minsk had previously resold as fuel, including to the Ukrainian army, and had income. In exchange for new benefits and loans, Moscow demands real integration https://www.politnavigator.net/socseti-obsuzhdayut-pokrasnevshego-lukashenko-posle-peregovorov-s-putinym.html, but Minsk prefers to play “independence”. Thus, Lukashenko publicly stated that “he will not sell sovereignty for a barrel of oil.” In addition, Minsk officials began to flirt with the West, following the example of the former Ukrainian leadership, proposing to hold the Eastern Partnership summit in Belarus, a project aimed at further reducing Moscow’s influence in the former USSR countries. The head of the Belarusian state, Alexander Lukashenko, refused https://www.politnavigator.net/lukashenko-zayavil-chto-khochet-obshhuyu-s-rossiejj-valyutu.html from the transition to the Russian ruble as the single currency of the Union State. The presidents of Russia and Belarus held several meetings last December, and another visit by Lukashenko to Moscow is planned in the near future.
Belarus is being offered a joint army with Russia.