The Belarusian
leadership should decide whether it considers strategic partnership with Russia
important and beneficial, Russian State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov said on June
15.His remark
follows the Belarusian leader's failure to appear at the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) Summit
on Sunday.
Five of the CSTO member states
– Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia and Tajikistan – signed an agreement establishing a
CSTO joint rapid response force, but Minsk
described that accord as invalid. Uzbekistan back out of the deal,
citing “some reservations.”
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