Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia unprepared for more radical integration for now

       Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia are not ready for more radical integration steps for now. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at the press conference held for representatives of Belarusian and foreign mass media.
       Speaking about the statement made by US Secretary of State Ms Hillary Clinton, who said she fears tighter Eurasian integration and said the USA was ready to prevent the process, Alexander Lukashenko said:
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       “What is there to comment? She said it today and tomorrow all the officials of the Department of State started furiously denying it was not what she had meant.
        They may be worried about what is going on here in the post-Soviet space and we are worried about what is going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, along the Arab arc. It is unacceptable for us! We are worried about it, too. Therefore, we understand their worry but we don’t wage wars. We don’t use arms to destroy these countries and nor does Russia that Hillary Clinton tried to reproach in the first place. I see nothing wrong with Russia trying to collect all these countries around it in some civilized manner at last.
We build our relations depending on our interests. And we will continue doing so. I know it is the view of all the countries. We see reference points of the global economy, the world order and we align ourselves for them certainly. But we have our own interests”.