Kremlin ready to make public transcript with Lukashenka’s promises

The government of Russia is ready to tell what else the Belarusian leader had promised except recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Kremlin is ready to publish transcript from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) session with statements of Alyaksandr Lukashenka about readiness to recognize independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Such a statement had been made by aide of the Russian president Sergei Prikhodko, RIA Novosti informed on Saturday.

“We can publish also other statements by Alyaksandr Lukashenka, which could be rather interesting both to the Belarusian and international public,” the aide of the Russian president said.

Commenting on request of the journalists on the words of Lukashenka that he had not recognized independence of these two states as Moscow turned out to be unable to support Belarus in resolving the problems which could be faced by it, Prikhodko noted that “it is not for Alyaksandr Ryhoravich (Lukashenka) to talk about inconsistency here”. “It is to him that this description perfectly applies,” he said.

As it was informed earlier, on Friday in response to the statement of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that the ruler of Belarus had solemnly promised to recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but that hadn’t been done yet, Lukashenka said that “he had not promised that anywhere solemnly, and no one had heard about that”. “It is solemn when it is said publicly… If Russia had made steps to meet, the situation would be different probably,” the Belarusian leader noted. “I would not like to discuss this topic, a Russian colleague had simply torn some things from the context unscrupulously and dishonestly,” Lukashenka stated during a visit to Minsk region on August 13.