"Our happiness is here". Lukashenko laid bare the situation inside and around the CIS

CIS countries need to stick together. This was stated by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting with participants of the 52nd meeting of the Council of Heads of Security and Special Services of the CIS Member States, as reported by a BELTA correspondent.

"Nobody needs us, except for that post-Soviet space that exists today after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In fact, we speak the same language, we have a common economy, common markets, industrial cooperation, and so on. It will take more than our lifetime or our children's lifetime to create this. And why break it? Why break this common market?" the President asked rhetorically.

Alexander Lukashenko said that the rapprochement of countries in the post-Soviet space brings them significant economic benefits. According to him, when, for example, Uzbekistan began to interact more actively with the Commonwealth, it brought it an additional $1.5 billion, and even more so now. "So, is happiness here? No one invited you to other markets. Why dismantle this today?" the head of state noted.

The President recalled how he once tried to persuade the leaders of Ukraine and Georgia not to rush to withdraw from the CIS. "It will be harder to return, and you will have to return. And the economy will force us to," he is convinced.

"Look at another example. It seems that for Europe, the USA, Ukraine is everything, it is native. They have bet everything on it. So, support it. But they are in a simple situation... As soon as Ukraine began to clear its granaries of grain and transport it to Europe, everyone closed their borders to it. And the mad Balts, and the mad Poles, and even the Slovaks. All of them closed their markets to Ukrainian grain. Why? Because prices for their own produce began to fall. Farmers were outraged. And this is just one item - grain. What else will Ukraine sell on the Western market? Nothing. When the war ends, they will still come to us," the Belarusian leader is confident.

An uncertain situation has also developed in Moldova, the President pointed out. Due to the short-sighted decisions of local politicians, the economy in the country began to decline. "What did they do better?" the head of state asked.

"The main thing, the entire foundation and basis, is the economy and people's lives," Alexander Lukashenko emphasized.

The President gave another example: the West is still trying to bring Belarus and Russia to their knees, but this only leads to the opposite effect. "A revolution is already unfolding there: 'Why are we giving so much money to Ukraine for people to be killed, while we ourselves are starting to live worse and worse?' And this trend is not just beginning, but will soon reach its peak. Today, the West and the Americans already want some kind of pause in Ukraine, so that the shooting and other things stop there. For what purpose – to hold elections. First of all, in the United States of America. Let them sit down at the negotiating table, and we need to reach an agreement to stop the war. And not to look for some loopholes to lie low for a period, and then start again. We have been through this many times. We won't be bought with that," the Head of State noted.

Source: belta.by