ArmInfo. Russia has no doubts and suspicions towards Belarus, Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was in an interview with RTR-Belarus, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, answering the question whether Russia is concerned about Belarus's participation in the Eastern Partnership. "We, of course, see how our Ukrainian, Moldovan and Georgian colleagues behave, but I repeat, they fail and I am sure that it will not be possible to translate the whole scheme of the Eastern Partnership into an anti-Russian channel," the Russian Minister stated.
Speaking about the Eastern Partnership as a whole, Lavrov said that Russia never teaches anyone life. "We have a Partnership Agreement with the EU, which, unfortunately, has not been frozen because of our fault, we have never doubted that all our neighbors and friends want to have good relations with all their partners in the West, East, North and the South.We see the desire of some of the countries that are members of the European Union to use the Eastern Partnership for anti-Russian purposes, they are not the majority, but they are behaving aggressively enough.This was manifested, including in the speech of the British Prime Minister Theresa May at the summit " Eastern steam "The overwhelming majority of the EU countries understand that this will be another attempt with inappropriate means and that it is counterproductive and unpromising to introduce an anti-Russian fuse in any contacts with the CIS member countries." We appreciated the firm position of Belarus together with a number of other participants in the Eastern Partnership against such attempts, that the final declaration, despite the desire of some participants in the summit, does not contain otherworldly things that do not directly concern We see a big role, including Belarus, that did not allow this process to be politicized, ideologized, and which sees in it its fundamental interest to develop normal relations with Western Europeans. It seems to me that here we did not discern any discrepancies, "concluded Lavrov.