MINSK, 1 April (BelTA) – Belarus will be together with Russia in any situation. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement as he met with Dmitry Rogozin, Vice Premier of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Defense Industries Commission under the Russian Federation government, on 1 April, BelTA has learned.

Alexander Lukashenko told Dmitry Rogozin: “I am very pleased to see you in Minsk as a person close to me in ideology and in soul. Then we have a number of state matters to discuss. We seem to have some problems in this regard. Frankly speaking, I can say that we don’t really like the situation evolving around us”.

The head of state continued: “In this regard we have clearly and definitely stated that we should be closer to each other. In any situation we will be together with Russia. All kinds of speculations about it must be stopped”.

Alexander Lukashenko said that for instance, the Americans “bombed Iraq to bits and after the bombing everyone understood that it was a wrong move, an unfair one, yet they sided with the allies”. “Why should we act differently if Russia is our ally and is the only ally? That’s the entire logic of it,” said Alexander Lukashenko.

In his words, there are also other factors to consider. “This is why we act depending on the situation to honor interests of our state and interests of our only strategic ally of this kind,” stressed the President.

“We don’t hide the fact that we work very hard to advance cooperation in military and technical sphere,” continued the head of state. “We are modernizing our defense industries, trying to make new products at our enterprises. But since there are only several dozens of high-tech enterprises, we understand that the modernization will be more effective if they are coupled with Russian defense industries”. Alexander Lukashenko believes that “due to the peculiar nature of the products they will be in demand primarily in our Russia”. “We understand it perfectly well,” said the Belarus President.