MINSK, 30 October (BelTA) - The depth of aggravation in the Russia-West relations is unprecedented, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said during the conference for Belarusian army officers on 30 October, BelTA has learned.
The President noted that for the first time the new U.S. national military strategy adopted this year lists countering “revisionist states" as one of the priority tasks. Among such states they see Russia who persistently tries to make adjustments to the existing architecture of international security.
Alexander Lukashenko stated that the simmering conflicts in Transcaucasia are boiling up again. The situation has aggravated in Nagorno-Karabakh. The parties to this conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan, are close political partners of Belarus, the head of state noted.
According to the President, "the emergence of another zone of instability, in addition to the Transnistrian problem, can trigger domestic unrest in Moldova".
The Central Asia states are on the line of sharp controversies for land and water resources. Alexander Lukashenko noted that the parties to these conflicts are again Belarus' partners - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The President believes that the war in Syria, the deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan will lead to an increase in terrorist activity. An extensive trafficking of arms and drugs, tens of thousands of armed people at the borders, the projected movement of substantial forces fighting in Syria and Iraq, in northern Afghanistan - all this is a threat to neighboring Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and other states. "Above all, this poses the threat of radicalization,” Alexander Lukashenko noted.
In his view, the risks associated with the proliferation of international terrorism are increasing in the Eastern European region as well.
