BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

15/06/2009

Russia: MFA statement on the relations with Belarus

In relations between Russia and Belarus, the problem of Belarusian dairy products supply to the Russian market has become acutely manifest. It is due to the painful reaction of official Minsk to the demand to comply with current Russian technical regulations for milk and dairy products, equally binding upon all foreign suppliers. Further, the Russian side had expressed the readiness to make all necessary efforts to facilitate prompt compliance by Belarusian suppliers with the established requirements. Our principled stand is that the issues of dairy products supply ought to be tackled between the relevant agencies of the two countries in a constructive and businesslike vein.

Unfortunately, this essentially technical problem was given a political coloring. Citing the unsettledness of the question of Belarusian dairy products supply to Russia, Minsk had taken decision not to attend the regular CSTO Collective Security Council session, which took place in Moscow on June 14. At the same time it is obvious that attempts to tie the settlement of bilateral issues to the promotion of cooperation in such multilateral formats as CSTO are irrational and detrimental. Such an approach by no means contributes to greater cooperation in questions of economic and military security and does not take into account the interests of the other CSTO member states. We presume that CSTO and the Collective Operational Reaction Force, on which the necessary decisions were made on June 14, are designed to provide a calm life and security for a whole array of states, including Russia and Belarus.

We would like to once again reiterate the firm disposition of the Russian side to continue to expand interaction with Belarus in every sphere of bilateral cooperation in the interests of the peoples of the two brother peoples. We regard Belarus as a reliable partner and ally.

Source:

http://www.isria.com/pages/15_June_2009_45.htm

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