Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has dismissed as a joke Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko’s statement that Kazakhstan may join the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Videos of statement Tokayev was published by his press service in Telegram.
“Recently, the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, offered Kazakhstan to join the Union State. I liked his joke. other integration associations, first and foremost the Eurasian Economic Union,” Tokayev said.
He added that Kazakhstan does not need nuclear weapons, as the country has joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. “We remain faithful to our obligations under these international documents,” Tokayev stressed.
On May 24, Tokayev, at a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Forum, called the Union State of Russia and Belarus a “phenomenon”. He stressed that it is a question of creating a State according to the formula “two countries – one State” with a single political, legal, military, economic, monetary, cultural, humanitarian space. “And, I’m sorry, even nuclear weapons are one for two now,” Tokayev said.
On May 28, Lukashenko said that countries concerned about Russia and Belarus possessing nuclear weapons can join the Union State. “If anyone is worried, well, I don’t think Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is worried about it, but if suddenly no one will be against Kazakhstan and other countries with the same close relations as us we have with the Russian Federation. And it’s very simple – everyone has to join the Belarusian-Russian union, and there will be nuclear weapons for everyone,” Lukashenko said.
On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that on July 1, Russia would complete construction of a tactical nuclear weapons storage facility in Belarus. He noted that this is only about deployment, there are no plans to transfer nuclear weapons to Minsk.
March 31 Lukashenka said that strategic nuclear weapons can also be deployed in Belarus. “It will be necessary – Putin and I will decide and introduce here, if necessary, strategic weapons. And they have to understand that, scoundrels there, abroad, who today are trying to blow us up inside and out,” he said.
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