Foreign
Minister Syarhey Martynau told reporters in Brussels
on July 28 that Minskviews
the Eastern Partnership program as a natural priority, and the EU and Russia as its
most important partners. A number of
specific projects that could be carried out within the Eastern Partnership have
already been proposed by Belarus
to neighbor countries and the European Commission, Interfax quoted him as
saying.
He said that
Minsk has not yet decided whether
or not to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia
as independent states, describing the issue as “complex.”