The future of relations of Belarus and Russia with the EU will largely depend on the European Union itself, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Sergei Aleinik told reporters after he took part in the Union State Supreme State Council summit in Saint Petersburg, BelTA has learned.

The foreign minister was asked what principles the relations of Russia and Belarus with the EU will be based on in the future.

“This will largely depend on the European Union. We are open to dialogue. We have made ourselves clear about it more than once. We did not initiate cutting off ties, we did not initiate the illegitimate economic sanctions against our countries. In many ways this will depend on the European Union, namely on their political and economic course,” the foreign minister said.