'We will never be Russia's enemy,' Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday, adding that his country 'will never give Russia the cold shoulder.'
Lukashenko made the comments during a meeting regarding issues of Belarusian and Russian cooperation, the BelTA news agency reported. The meeting precedes a summit between both nations scheduled to take place on Monday in Minsk, Belarus' capital.
Lukashenko said that his country is with Russia, but"as a sovereign and independent state," adding that it controls its own territory. "I am saying this absolutely sincerely: with all the difficulties, if the Russian Federation—the leadership—wants to build relations with the sovereign independent state of Belarus, if Russia perceives us as a sovereign and independent state but a very close one, very reliable, where everything Russian—from the language to Russian traditions—is venerated, we are ready to build the relations," Lukashenko said Friday.
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