Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his Belarusian counterpart, Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov on November 22 in the city of Brest, close to the Belarus-Poland border. The meeting is occurring at a point in time when the Belarusian press is underlining the organizing of openly terrorist operations in Poland and Lithuania, aimed at intervening in the upcoming Belarus presidential elections next year with organized Belarus dissidents who have been mobilized into military formations by their neighbors.
The Brest Fortress is also important as the scene of major battles as the Germans moved eastward in 1941, and it will be the location of major celebrations next year as they celebrate the end of World War II. The two ministers also discussed the issue of creating a Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century,” which was launched by Belarus at this Year’s Minsk conference on Eurasian Security and signed a document underlining their agreement on this issue. The two also discussed the further development of the Russia-Belarus Union State.
In his comments, Ryzhenkov underlined the attempts by the West to launch such “color revolution” operations against Belarus. “This kind of subversive work against Belarus has been going on for more than four years since 2020,” he said. “Throughout almost the entire existence of the Belarusian state, which independently determines its course, attempts to remove the country’s leadership, the President, have been undertaken to one degree or another many times.” “"The only thing is that in recent years, such activities have acquired completely openly terrorist forms,” he noted.
In reply to the question of the nuclear cooperation, Lavrov said, “Regarding the question of the updated nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation and how it relates to the activities of the Union State, I have already mentioned that two projects have been prepared for the Supreme State Council, which will take place before the end of the year.
The first project is the Concept of Security of the Union State. The second is the draft of a bilateral interstate treaty on security guarantees. The content of the updated nuclear doctrine is fully synchronized with these two Russian-Belarusian documents,” he said.
Earlier Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said that if Belarus were invaded by a foreign power, it would reserve the right to respond with nuclear weapons.
