President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko remembered how the US authorities and the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, pressed the republic to the republic, so Minsk conveyed to Moscow with a nuclear weapon. The head of state told about this in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
The Belarusian leader noted that the document on which Belarus pledged to withdraw nuclear warheads from the country was not compiled by him, but the previous leadership of the republic. He assured that he would not go for such a step. “I didn’t take a nuclear weapon after that for a few more years. You know why I brought him off? In violation of the contract, I left him in Belarus. You will not believe it, not only at the request of Americans. But, first of all, under the tough pressure of Yeltsin and The whole team, which was then, “explained Lukashenko.
As explained by the agency, after the collapse of the USSR, there were dozens of charges to the intercontinental missiles “Poplar” and over thousands of tactical nuclear warheads. Minsk signed an agreement on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and was forced to bring weapons from the territory of the country.
On November 30, Lukashenko said that he would offer Russian President Vladimir Putin to return nuclear weapons to Belarus under one condition – if NATO places similar armament in Poland.
In 2010, the head of the republic already expressed regret for the rid of the country from nuclear weapons. Then Lukashenko called the decision taken by the mistake and stressed that if Belarus had such arms, they would have been talking to her differently. “
At the same time in 1996, Lukashenko expressed the opposite opinion. At a meeting with Yeltsin in the Kremlin, where the closer cooperation between Moscow and Minsk was discussed, the Belarusian president spoke of the inability to stop the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from the country. Then the politician argued that he had no need to leave nuclear warheads in Belarus, because Minsk did not manage them.