BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

03/11/2007

Zyuganov urges Kremlin to proceed with building union with Belarus

MINSK. Nov 3 (Interfax) - Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov has called on the Russian government to abide by its commitments on building a union with Belarus.

"There is an agreement on building a union, and so please go ahead with implementing it - set up common administrative bodies, pass common laws, and so on," Zyuganov said at an international congress of leftwing parties in Minsk on Saturday.

Zyuganov also urged the Russian leadership "to stop blackmailing Minsk and arguing with Belarus who will be president of the union."

"The West is dreaming about separating Belarus from Russia and incorporating it into NATO and the EU," Zyuganov said. He added, however, that this "will never happen" and called on socialist forces to combine their efforts to prevent this scenario.

"Everything should be done so that the union should develop," he said.

Source:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11900537