Yury Shautsou: Union state may disappear or “be frozen”
A Belarusian political scientist Yury Shautsou has commented on the aggravation of Belarusian-Russian relations and Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s refusal to go to the session of the CSTO Security Council in Moscow in an interview with ERB. Yury Shautsou: “It is a very profound conflict. It is structural and system. There has never been a similar crisis in the Belarusian-Russian relations before. I would not exclude that the union state as a form of integration may disappear or be frozen”.
Shautsou hopes that Russia will not allow a rupture of relations with Belarus because it is interested in it. The actions of Minsk prejudice the very existence of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The other member-states will watch the development of the Belarusian-Russian conflict and make their conclusions. This is what Yury Shautsou says:
“If Central Asian states and Kazakhstan do not see a real ally in Russia they will turn to the West and China, namely to the West”.
Shautsou hopes that Russia will not allow a rupture of relations with Belarus because it is interested in it. The actions of Minsk prejudice the very existence of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The other member-states will watch the development of the Belarusian-Russian conflict and make their conclusions. This is what Yury Shautsou says:
“If Central Asian states and Kazakhstan do not see a real ally in Russia they will turn to the West and China, namely to the West”.
