Lukashenka: We squirm before Russia every time on New Year eve

• 6.12.2010, 13:32

The Belarusian dictator delivered a speech for more than 3 hours at the so-called All-Belarusian People’s Assembly which had been organized by him.

First his speech had a purely propagandistic nature, in the style of the congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with their main idea “to catch up and outdo”. Then Alyaksandr Lukashenka could not stay calm and attacked Russia.

The Belarusian leader stated that he finds it not a normal situation when every time on the New Year eve “we have to squirm in front of Russia” to get oil, “Interfax-Zapad” reports.

“Is it normal when Belarusian officials have to squirm in Moscow every time on the New Year eve, asking for a barrel of oil?” Lukashenka said.

“Every time people have a holiday, and all of us, from the president to the head of a department, are squirming in Moscow or somewhere else, asking for a barrel of oil or a cubic metre of gas. It is not normal. That is why a task has been set for today. And it is being implemented. And it is so not because Russia is bad,” Lukashenka said. He continued: “We are telling all the time brotherly: guys, tell us what you need, and we are ready. We sent half of our rescuers to Russia when they had fires,” he said.

“We won’t tolerate from anyone, while I am a president, to kick us, to punch us, to hit us in the face. This won’t happen ever,” Lukashenka said.

“It was never easy to cooperate with the new Russia. But we do not have any other, and it is our Russia too, Russian people are living there, and we are ready to work with them,” the Belarusian leader underlined.

“Speaking about Russia, it is not a personal issue, an issue of Lukashenka’s being a troublemaker, no. the question is different, it is a purely economic issue, I am ready to tolerate everything, mud and everything, for the sake of my country, for the good of my people, but I cannot agree to costs being doubled. How can we build a state for the people then?” Lukashenka stated.

Lukashenka also believes that the desire of the Belarusian side to participate in oil extraction on the territory of Russia is well-founded.

“I have always said to the leadership of Russia: we do not want any preferences. Give us a possibility to work in Russia – where in Soviet time we have been building oil wells, production fields, cities– under the same conditions as the US and the West,” Lukashenka said.

“There is no answer so far, that is why we have to go over the Atlantic Ocean,” he concluded, reminding that this year Belarus started to produce oil in Venezuela. “It would be nice to have such oil fields in our Russia,” Lukashenka noted.

He reminded that “we have received a slap on the head, and the Russian market was closed for our deliveries.” “We must thank the EU for not doing so. Our trade with the EU today is greater than with Russia,” the ruler said.

Lukashenka observed that “recently Russian authorities are organizing some other model of relations. This policy needs strategic reconsideration.”

The ruler stated that today Belarus is offered to join the Eurasian Union. “I am offered an idea of the Eurasian Union. A declaration had been sent to me. But we already have the E Eurasian Economic Community, the CSTO, the “union state”. And this is one more organization,” Lukashenka said.

The dictator noted that “we are fiddling with creation of the Customs Union, which was created in the framework of the “union state” of Belarus and Russia long ago. “I am ashamed to speak about our Belarusian-Russian relations now. The president of Russia in his speeches does not say a word about relations within the “union state”. As if this colossal work over the years of creation of the “union state” has nit been made,” Lukashenka underlined.

He stated that “we must rely on ourselves only”. “If the countries of the former Soviet Union talk with us politely, we are forgiving. But we should build our economy proceeding from our own resources,” Lukashenka underlined.

“The country has not bent, despite of the unbelievable pressure and blackmailing from all sides. We have not allowed ruining the political and social stability we’ve created. We have the national property, which had been sold for trifling sums in other countries,” he noted.

“No one would solve our problems for us: either Moscow or Washington or Brussels. We must decisively get rid of the flawed servile psychology of dependency on someone stronger and underestimation of our own capabilities,” Lukashenka stated.

Probably as an example of the country’s development Lukashenka stated that today Belarus is ready to produce… spaceships.

“We have created a plant which is able to produce unique spaceships,” he said.

We remind that a few years ago a Belarusian satellite was launched from a Russian spaceport unsuccessfully, and was lost.