KAZAN, 23 October (BelTA) – Russia would like to get guarantees from the West. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement in an interview with the BBC reporter Steven Rosenberg on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that Belarus and Russia had worked out a unified stance: negotiations are necessary for establishing peace in the region. The president reminded that Russia and Ukraine could have come to an agreement in Istanbul, however, the West had disrupted the process.
“I’ve seen those agreements. Not a lot of obligations in them. They can be used as a starting point. They are generic,” the head of state stated. “Once the parties sit down at the negotiating table, they can talk about a ceasefire and then about the withdrawal of armed forces. But these matters should be handled at the negotiating table. Russia needs guarantees that once the ceasefire begins, you [the West] will not bring ammunition to Ukraine and will not begin rearming Ukraine’s Armed Forces. It shouldn’t happen. That’s what Putin is worried about.”
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