Head of the State Military Industrial Committee of Belarus Dmitry Pantus saw the benefit of the republic in cooperation with Russia and China in the field of military industry. In his opinion, this will allow the impact of Western sanctions on Belarusian enterprises of the industry. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
On the air of the channel ONT Pantus expressed the view that “sanctions introduce weak people against strong” and in these conditions before Minsk there is a task “to prove to the world that we are able to work including under the oppression of these sanctions.” “Well, and, of course, we have partners, such as the Russian Federation, China, together with which we organized work in such a way as to limit sanctions as much as possible,” said Pantus.
Speaking about the impact of sanctions on the work of enterprises of the industry, Pantus made that in the future, on the part of Western countries, new sanctions packages will follow. According to him, Minsk refers to the sanctions “very scrupulously”. “Our main task is to mobilize forces and resources in order to be better,” said the head of the state community.
On December 5, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Puzzchenko announced the introduction of response against sanctions of Western countries. According to him, Minsk in the coming days will voiced them after weekends. He added that the response measures will be “absolutely adequate” and “symmetrical.”
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, during the meeting, demanded that the authorities of the country in military and without red tape develop antisancation measures.
On December 2, the European Union due to the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border adopted the fifth package of sanctions against Minsk. More than 25 individuals and legal entities fell into it, including the Belavia airline and Grodno Nitrogen and Belarusneft enterprises. New restrictive measures against Belarus also introduced the United States and Britain.