So this is what “provoked” Lukashenko: He doesn’t want to switch to the Russian ruble
Russia offered Belarus, in exchange for large-scale economic assistance, to implement the clauses of the Union Treaty on the introduction of a single currency and tax policy.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced this today at a press conference in Moscow.
A unified Constitution, courts and parliament have so far been postponed for the future, but even the transition to the Russian ruble has caused a painful reaction in Minsk - Alexander Lukashenko has been voicing calls for upholding Belarusian independence for several days now.
“The Treaty on the Creation of the Union State, it is open, available... It contains many of the things that united us at that time and prompted us to create the Union State. It provided for the adoption of a constitutional act, and the creation of a union parliament, and a court of the Union State.
This at that time was voluntarily agreed upon between Moscow and Minsk. Over time, it became clear that it was probably not yet possible to create a common Constitution, a common parliament, or a common court. But we do not insist on this at all.
We spoke with our Belarusian colleagues during the last contacts of our presidents, and there were three of them in December last year, about those provisions of the union treaty that, unlike the general Constitution, parliament, court, relate to extremely specific practical things in the sphere of economics and trade .
This refers to the actions provided for in this agreement to form a single monetary unit, a single monetary policy, and a tax policy. These are all things that are directly related to economic and financial relations within the Union State,” Lavrov said.
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