The leader of the United Civil Party Anatoly Lebedko said, that the situation with ratification of the Customs Code of the Customs Union by Belarus at the last minute was rather predictable. "The Belarusian party was driven into a corner, and if it hadn't ratified the border would have appeared between Belarus and Russia tomorrow. With all consequences, as it were", the politician emphasized on July, 5th.
According to Anatoly Lebedko, that’s why the other tactics was chosen, «after all the Customs code is ratified de jure, but it isn’t entered de facto». «I think that it is a such long process when each letter will be disputed. They will behave as if they misunderstand or misapprehend something, and they will execute something, after the others make this or that… I don’t rule out that such bargaining will happen», the oppositional politician said, Radio Racyja informs.
The UCP leader doesn’t consider that process with the Customs union is finished, opposite, as he said, it was only the end of the beginning. «Yes, the film shown on the Russian NTV channel on July, 4th, might have put fat in the fire. So there will be a lot of emotional speeches and statements. They are far from realization of practical decisions», he said.
Answering the question why both the Belarusian and the Russian parties have recently criticized each other rather critically, the politician said that the situation with image becomes very unpleasant to the Kremlin. » Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev might have reached some limit and have decided to use situation on the eve of presidential election campaign. Now the Kremlin starts to use the tool which has been effectively used earlier by the Belarusian authorities», Anatoly Lebedko said.
