There is unclear pressure from Russian authorities, the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on June, 22nd at the meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, concerning questions of creation of the Customs union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. "The behaviour of the Russian authorities today isn't clear to me ", the head of the state said.
The Belarusian leader noticed that the Customs Union of three countries should be under founded without any exceptions and restrictions on the basis of equality of all partners, BelTA informs. According to Alexander Lukashenko, the decision to impose the customs duties on oil as exception of the Customs union «was somehow clear», but the decision «to impose the customs duties for us is not clear, while oil is sold to us twice more expensive, than to Kazakhstan».
«However Kazakhstan not only extracts oil, but also exports it. Such selective attitude to the partners in the Customs Union is absolutely unclear. Well, it is not our business, but why there are such relation in the Customs Union to one partner and absolutely another to other. I don’t understand it», Alexander Lukashenko noticed
The president of Belarus said in conversation with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia that he proposed to the Russian authorities to go further and to abrogate various restrictions on cars, clothes and other commodity groups. «The Customs Union should be founded without any exceptions and restrictions that is why it is necessary to remove the customs duties as well», Alexander Lukashenko emphasized once again.
The Belarusian leader reminded that he had proposed at negotiations on foundation of the Customs Union to cancel the duty on oil products since July, 1st this year, and on oil since January, 1st next year. However, according to the president, the authorities of Russia didn’t agree to this proposal.
