Belarus leader urges greater attention to security amid Ukraine events
MINSK. Oct 10 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has called on CIS states to focus on tackling security issues within the Commonwealth instead of making European countries solely responsible for them.
"We should pay greater attention to these problems here, within the CIS, because a war is already raging on the territory of one of our partners - a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a huge country," Lukashenko said, opening a CIS summit in Minsk on Friday.
Other leaders share this point of view, the Belarusian president said, adding that "it is unacceptable when burning problems related to a country like Ukraine are being tackled somewhere far away - whether it be Berlin or Milan."
"It is important for us to realize that Ukraine is not just a local hotbed of tensions. Fighting there is immediately affecting security and undermining economic development both in Ukraine and across the whole of former Soviet soil," Lukashenko said.
