I suspect for many Ukrainians this aggression and invasion and
appropriation of land in violation of the Budapest memo, will mean being
neutral is very stupid.
And his talk if making "an agreement" that no one has a right to meddle
anymore is just going to be not worth anything any more.
Putler changed everything. Now let's just see what happens when China moves
in on Russian land, the Chinese have been settling there now for some time,
marrying Russian women, etc.
China will have to go in and protect their people, I guess too.
On Sunday, 23 March 2014, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Belarusian President Says Crimean Annexation 'Bad Precedent'
>
> http://www.rferl.org/content/belarus-lukashenka-crimea-precedent/25306914.html
> By RFE/RL
> March 23, 2014
>
> Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says Russia's annexation of
> Crimea is a "bad precedent," but acknowledged that the region is now a "de
> facto" part of Russia.
>
> "When it comes to recognizing or not recognizing [the annexation of
> Crimea], Crimea is not an independent state unlike Ossetia or Abkhazia,"
> Lukashenko told reporters in Minsk when asked on March 23 about his refusal
> to endorse the Russian annexation of the peninsula. "Crimea today is a part
> of Russian territory. You can recognize or not recognize that, but this
> will change absolutely nothing."
>
> While indirectly criticizing Moscow for annexing Crimea, Lukashenka said
> the Ukrainians have brought the crisis on themselves by allowing years of
> corrupt leadership.
>
> He said Ukrainian authorities "provided the reason, or at the very least,
> the pretext" for the current situation.
>
> Lukashenka added that Ukraine should not join international groupings such
> as NATO.
>
> "Ukraine should stay a united, undivided, integral state that is not a
> member of any block because it would be very sensitive both for us and for
> Russia if, for example, NATO's military would deploy in Ukraine tomorrow,
> this we can't allow to happen," he said. "This is our global interest. So
> we have to make an agreement that nobody has a right to meddle in Ukraine
> anymore."
>
> Earlier in March, Moscow sent several warplanes to Belarus at Lukashenka's
> request. Lukashenka had said Belarus offered to host 12 to 15 Russian
> warplanes on its territory to counter NATO's increase in the deployment of
> its warplanes to member countries near Ukraine.
>
> Lukashenko said on March 23 that the Russian warplanes will stay in his
> country "as long as Belarus and Russia want."
>
> Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russian forces were deployed across
> Crimea last month to protect the rights of Russian speakers.
>
> Only eight percent of eastern Belarus's population is ethnic Russian. But
> Russian is the dominant language spoken across all of Belarus -- raising
> concerns in Minsk that Russia could target Belarus in the future using the
> same justification Putin gave for the seizure of Crimea.
>
> Lukashenka, who has been in power for nearly two decades, is criticized by
> the West for his crackdown on the opposition and free speech.
>
> Minsk heavily relies on economic and military support from Moscow.
>
>
> With reporting by Reuters, ITAR-TASS, Interfax, and "Foreign Affairs"
>
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