Related souls

Alexander Lukashenko and Hugo Chavez intend to be friends against George Bush at the end of July to ignore Belarus with high -ranking guests from abroad will be interrupted - Minsk will visit the Venezuela President Hugo Chavez with an official visit. The Belarusian senators learned about this from the mouth of the brother of the Venezuelan leader Adan Chavez, who arrived in the republic, oddly enough, as an ambassador of Venezuela in Cuba.

He explained that the foreign policy departments of Venezuela and Belarus have prepared a meeting of the heads of friendly states from the end of last year. The possibility of its holding in Minsk and Karakas was discussed, and yet they stopped in the Belarusian capital. Apparently, Alexander Lukashenko, who is Persona Non Grata in the Western states, did not dare to fly to Venezuela, fearing the repetition of the recent story with the Prime Minister of Belarus Sergey Sidorsky, who, during the visit to the Cuba of the US authorities and Canada, refused to provide their airports for refueling the aircraft.

According to Adan Chavez, the presidents will discuss a wide range of issues of mutually beneficial cooperation, giving priority to agriculture and science. It was emphasized that the experience of Belarus in the production of buses, the Belaz and machine tools are of particular interest to Venezuela.

The leader of the opposition United Civil Party Anatoly Lebedko adheres to a different view of the purpose of the Chavez visit. He is sure that Venezuela is primarily interested in the products of the Belarusian military-industrial complex, as well as in the inheritance from the Soviet Army weapons and military equipment, primarily in tanks and aircraft. The Belarusian leadership, according to Lebedko, expects to receive oil from Venezuela, as well as financial injections, since the economy of the republic is in dire need of investment. However, according to the politician, because of the remoteness of the two states, economic cooperation between them is unlikely to become fruitful, so Chavez’s visit to Belarus will have only a political effect.

“For Lukashenko, Chavez is not only a“ rich bride ”, but also a related anti -American soul, and during their meeting they will try to demonstrate their unity in the fight against the United States,” said Lebedko.

This thought was confirmed by Adan Chavez. He stated that Belarus and Venezuela is one of the most important is “a desire to resist the aggressive policy of the North American Empire - the USA” and both countries should join forces because “there is a common enemy that prevents our goals”.

The theme of the common enemy was picked up by the chairman of the permanent commission of the Council of the Republic for International Affairs and National Security Nikolai Cherginets. He stated not only the need to coordinate the joint actions of Venezuela and Belarus against US pressure, but also came up with the initiative to organize an international tribunal over George Bush. “It is necessary to convene a representative international conference in order to call on the world public to curb the American president,” the politician said. In confirmation of the globalness of this idea, he said that his initiative "has already been supported not only by the Venezuela parliamentarians, but also to Belgium, the Netherlands, the countries of Asia, Africa and even in America itself."

06/29/2006 / Viktor Yanin / Minsk, the material was published in the newspaper No. 112 dated 06.30.2006.