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efforts to barricade itself against its arab neighbors. up next the future of russia belarus relations in the spotlight stay with us. how again i walk into the spotlight the interview show on our team i'm al gore and all men today my guest. and i poured her heart of lot of the potent took office earlier in may you made a number of the media's decision one was to skip the g eight summit in the us which allows take away show in the media about which country would be chosen for putting

the first presidential visit according to recent information it will be belarus russia's close neighbor and ally bilateral relations however suffered during the presidency i would lead to madrid so it was going to change in the near future how will the relations between russia and belarus developed pull discuss that border states treat the union state of russia and belarus anybody. before heading the union state a russian ballerinas group border a border made his way up as a politician and government official he graduated from russia's most prestigious tactical unit bus to and from there join the k.g.b. foreign operations department this reporter spends about thirty years in the intelligence service before he switched to government work in the late ninety's as vishal is occupying a few ministerial positions head of russia's arms trading agency and served as

presidential envoy to several russian regions in late two thousand and eleven gregorio reportedly was appointed state secretary of the russia belarus alliance the united states. meet. mr porter welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today. has chosen minsk the capital of the. as the first place where he's paying an official visit after being elected as president doesn't mean that bill that it was is becoming russia's foreign policy policy priority yes it does yes it is yes it is a matter of fact if you will make you smile yes sure. it is a matter of fact because it's a common question. which i hear from from from journalists. i should say maybe i do are you tension to the fact that

when one of the first documents president putin is the new elected president signed was the strategy on foreign policy strategic and one of the first points is the development of relations between russia and bill russia. in the framework of the united states so united state so that just the nature of the development of. now this position well. recently a conference on the future of the union state which made the union state russia bellows the conference was held in london not in moscow not in minsk why wasn't it held on the territory of the state but abroad as a matter of fact i wouldn't call it as a conference it suggested was kind of a background meeting which was held in russian embassy and voice arranged by the

russian vessel. so. and. it was a number of. political just and maybe editors of some some newspapers and. it was just an invitation i couldn't resist this temptation and said nothing special so do you consider this this meeting in the russian embassy in london as sort of a presentation of the union state to to the west yes right you it was the first stand in this direction i think that it's. not right because you're. right about the russian or the union state which was created in the west so i'd like to give more realistic.

understanding what's going on between in relations between russia and belarus well here you have recently the end of last year replaced veteran politician bubble but i didn't as the head of the other state secretary of the union state are you going to change something in the policies not in the policies i'm going to make some changes in the executive board. of the united states. not in the policy because policy is related. by the heads of state and. you know where just. executive board you asked me well there's an interesting thing i've realized that under medvedev presidents the relations between the two countries were not so good but they

started improving as soon as it became clear that putin is going to become the next president doesn't mean that the relations between minsk a moscow really depend upon personal relations of the president first state like to say that it became improving. in the middle of the last year or so when the president of russia was still not ready so it didn't depend so much on the personalities but. some other. questions so it happened so that now the ration is between russian bear russian maybe that's a point. and it makes me happy because this very period of time to this position. and the visit you mentioned your fortunes research to build russia just. kind of proof. of this. good relations

well. i mean even earlier last year there was the famous milk war between moscow and minsk there were problems in even personal relations between between the question very well why didn't the institutions of the union state somehow interfere somehow help overcome these these difficulties because because as far as i heard is that they were overcome by the structures of russia but. the unions they sort of stayed aside and looked at how the company. no i don't think so because. the cording to my very short experience of working in this. in this field. high survive to frame a say so on live one. problem it was

a problem in this real aviation civil aviation if you remember and. in solution of this particular problem where we were deeply involved we were participating in negotiations between the two with or it is an authority so it was kind of both countries and we were deeply involved in this and i hope that we. contributed. to the solution of this problem my colleagues journalists have made note that. look close relations with moscow always start improving when his relations with the west are worsening do you agree do you get the feeling or or you would say that it's a coincidence and yes and no. you know i. i usually based on my judgment on the documents. sects and

if for example we. consider the trade relations of bill russia with the west and russia and export of bill are approximately equal to the west into russia and it didn't depend very much in this tendency consumers and and it doesn't depend very much on the relations. ups and downs and relations between russia and bill are so. you know it's one thing and then other factors as you mentioned that it mean more maybe emotional that. if you paid attention when it was the you know wish with the west and those sanctions which we can not accept and that's very time not only russia kazakhstan as well within the. asian community

they were quite united in the in condemning the sanctions move interesting you a politician speaking speaking about high ranking politicians mention the world emotional well isn't it true that mr looking shimko is probably. probably the last really emotional leader in europe at least. to some extent you know he's a very bright person and any bright person he he is judgments and. quite emotional and they draw attention. over time all over the world as a matter of fact the special those who are involved in the relations with bell are invested in the east. for so long and he's very good speaker

one of the best maybe in the world to the moment sort of. and his speeches always draw. much attention because he's very bright in his speeches is they. may this be the reason why they are becoming so close with putin because opposites attract that's what this is this is one of the. one of the very no it's not the question it's a question for psychologists and i think for the well. part that aspect secretary of the union state of russia and belarus spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us and. it's

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a bunch of losers but i have a very good job people have jobs here that's all nonsense so they don't have jobs they're losers. that i. think. the official t. have location. i pod touch from the. life on the. video on demand. gold costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part. and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm trying hard because the big show. you. welcome back to spotlight i'm now going to love and just to remind you that my guest on the show today is really good he got up for that well we're talking about belarus about russia's relationship with bella rose let's take a look at what they were like during the last fifteen years here is this report now from spotlight here there's him either. russia sought good relations with valor almost immediately after the collapse of the soviet union in one

thousand nine to one by the meet in one thousand nineties plans for integration included a single currency single citizenship and a common defense policy the first in a series of agreements creating the union between the two countries was signed in one thousand nine hundred six since that time russia's relations with belarus have grown closer than with any other former soviet republic the economic cooperation between the two countries has been considerable when belarus was hit hard by the credit crunch in two thousand and eight it was russia which gave its neighbor a to b. when u.s. dollar loan after the international monetary fund refused to do the same military corporation has also been quite intense with joint military exercises been held on a regular basis however neutral misunderstanding has not been uncommon the two thousand and four gas dispute elect to a temporary reduce ruction in russian supplies to bella rose russia expected more

support for mains after the conflict with georgia in august two thousand and eight the bellows did not recognize south the said and the ha's is independent moscow banned all imports of belorussian dairy products in two thousand and nine but despite that belarus is going to be muggy near putin's first port of call on his presidential. well listen proving once and. stressing the importance of relations with balance lately does that mean for the russians that russia will have to pay for the. losses caused by the e.u. sanctions. it's a good question you know. any state should play for its own interests you know and. and you

question there is. such an aspect that there is a contradiction between russia and the west and whether bill russia should be with the west or with russia that's the point of discussion among the journalists well this is not in my question i'm sorry this was i think policy this is the he's been playing for the what fifteen years as a matter of fact any wise leader should have many victors foreign policy so he's not you know he's not going to where we would want to discuss that yet and. you know the contribution of russia to bill or us is so big. that. it doesn't need some extra money. already there is the biggest russia is the biggest investor in

bill russia it's about i'm not mistaken about six billion dollars is already. invested to build and we say it's in this short presentation this year so right now it was shown what how wide corp between russia and bill russia how wide this field of corporations its military and its politic foreign policy sic anomic and humanitarian which is not pointed out but i think i think that it's the most important part of our relations between russia and belorussia it's humanitarian part because between russia and bill russia there is no border is it is because it's no border control it's the only border between the two countries in new york in most states. the only border where there is no border control doesn't and you see so you. humanitarian

corporation with which is so very important yes i believe this is this is so but people especially people in the west may may ask us well the main thing between the two countries especially if they're building a common state is economic cooperation business competition military but but humanitarian corp is not for losers i think that it's it's the most important to me to my mind yes including you mentioned the specter of corporation humanitarian when the citizens of one country. don't feel themselves as the foreigners in another country it's the biggest sakal logical effect of integration and that's what we have in the relations between russia and the russian and the only two states. who has this very situation recently. states of the nation address and the eighth of may and speaking

on russian television he's he he spoke about different aspects of life in bill loose and he you were commenting on that address and you said i quote i have a possibility to make sure that russia and the rust belt the roost how identical positions and i'm glad to be because this facilitates integration between the two countries this is what you said well those that mean these identical position positions or also also are identical in the questions of the attitude to west toward the west that your possessions i mean moscow and mirrors are identical in the attitude towards domestic opposition which we should look at should cause trust in this it is address and he was rather hard at these issues. i think that. there are similar

approaches to all all these questions as far as the west is concerned i mentioned already a common statement on the. west policy towards bill russia as far as the internal situation is concerned there are many similarities as well so. i paid attention more on economic. part of his statement concerning the investment policy. yes investment policy and guarantees for investment for investors all the guarantees for investors who are going to build russia so i think one of the most important part of his. you know statement. was reporter. will the bell the opposition the people that are recently deprived of leaving the country are freely

traveling to the west while they have the possibility at least to travel freely within the united states can they travel freely to moscow and to russia we have the groom and which concerning the limits to. visit the countries and. it's very personal it's very person which might be so might be not so it depends on the governments which we have. every concrete solution ok now there are different bodies. that are working besides the union state russia for example the the customs union the unified economic space so what is the union state good for in terms of integration if we compare it with the customs union and the unified

economic space i would say shortly the. union status pioneer project for the integration concerning the customs union concerning the three. canonic space concerning the free trade space and so on so forth because the first this formula was worked out in relations between russia and bill russia and then it was you know extended to in other countries so that shortly speaking well you said it was pioneering but everybody gets a feeling that putin is really up to building a eurasian union so if if the this eurasian union is built and starts functioning would make the russian. naturally usually but when that happens so it's a big question. it might so it might happen so but when i don't know so far it's

not the problem so so so so so you're not sure it may happen any time soon i mean in this presidential term a person where i don't think that it happened within the. you know the next three years no no i don't think so. but it might happen so we've if if the level of relations between the three countries now we're talking about. reaches the same grade of relations which exist between russia and. might happen so doesn't depend on the political will or there are other problems in creating. the great extent to years political yes and certainly and other problems because there are many objective questions which should be solved and it needs some time for that many people say one of the problems of integration with other us is that nobody wants to share power that moscow expects to look at the ship with moscow and

he doesn't want to do that is that true he is a matter of fact. it was this kind of judgment always but as i understand now we have gone our balances. maybe it's one of the. one of the reasons of our better way she is right now because the kind of balances of power is already found and. least for me or which exist right now political formula or of relations i think that it's very comfortable for both countries that's right. our relations from the good. shape so thank you thank you very much in just a reminder that my guest today was. a part that state sector in the union is the. i was rushing about and that's it for now from all of us here if your into as you are

sounds bottom line or have someone in mind who you think i should into next time to drop me a line algorithm. are these and let's keep wildlife interact would be back to more friends than a common set of what's going on in and outside of russia i'm so let's stay on target and thank you. neal. home.

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