Nyaklyaeu promises to sell pipelines and oil processing plants to Moscow

“Russian vector” in the external policy will be President Nyaklyaeu's priority. According to the leader of the "Tell the Truth!" campaign, not a single agreement with Russia signed by current Belarusian authorities will be abolished. However, all of them will be reconsidered and normalized. This was said by the presidential contender Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu during his meeting with the foreign journalists.

Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu: “We have analyzed all Lukashenka's agreements for 16 years with different leaders of Russia. There are two blocks of them: CIS agreements and Belarus-Russia Union agreements. If we try to extract something substantial of all this rubbish and empty words, we'll see there are not many things that matter. However, there are some important things which cannot be thrown away or forgotten”.


Nyaklyaeu and his team will form "the concept of responsible neignbourhood" from what would be left, and build the relations with the Eastern neighbour basing on it.  New agreements will be made on the neighbourhood basis. First, in the economic sphere. As, to the opinion of Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, Belarus desperately needs investments. It doesn't matter where they come from - money has no nationality.

Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu: “What it (Russian capital - ERB) can do here - that's what should be precisely defined. Russian capital should buy and take something which if not Russian yet, then almost Russian. Something nobody but Russia needs in the first place. For example, pipelines. These pipes which were buried under the ground for dozens of years need reconstruction, repair, big investments, which Belarus cannot provide. The same is with oil-processing plants, which work on Russian raw materials anyway. When they become owners, it will be much easier to negotiate with the Russians and solve issues which seem to be impossible to solve now”.

Nyaklyaeu's team will sell other enterprises to Russia, too, but on the condition of their modernization. As in this case the enterprise will function and give jobs to Belarusians.



Nyaklyaeu's government will not also reconsider existent military agreements with Russia in accordance with uniliteral provisions. For example, with regard to the Russian base of tactical missiles. However, the military doctrine of the potential candidate for President does not prescribe their location at our territory. In future.
Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu: “I think the rockets will be extradited in the perspective, as Belarus has already declared itself a neutral state. This strategy of development of Belarus contradicts the presence of tactical missiles”.



The head of Nyaklyaeu's electoral headquarters Andrej Dzmitryeu joined this discussion. His comment nearly led to the first political crisis in the contender's team. 

Andrej Dzmitryeu: “This is a very hard decision. Moreover, and that's important - in the Nyaklyaeu's Belarus it won't be Nyaklyaeu to decide on everything”.

Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu: “I don't get it!”

Andrej Dzmitryeu: “I'm sorry, Uladzimir Prakofievich! We are talking about a serious constitutional reform, there will be a parliament. Such issues should be considered not by the President, but by the parliament elected by the people”.



As for the "Western vector" of Nyaklyaeu's policy, the contender has not talked about it as long as about the Eastern one. However, he said it was because we needed to start building relationship with the West from the ground up, in fact.  
Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu: “We'll have to elaborate this vector from the very start I think. We'll have active cooperation with the EU. As we can get what we want, as well as Russia, only from the EU, from the West - I mean nanotechnologies in the first place”.

According to Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, he will do his best to get Belarus back to the Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE. However, as Andrej Dzmitryeu said, the first step will be signing of agreement on cooperation with the EU and providing free visas to Europeans..

Photo: Zmitser Lukashuk