US State Department related to the change in the Belarusian Constitution with the placement of Russia’s nuclear forces in this country. The words of a high-ranking department of a department leads RIA Novosti.
According to the American official, the proposed changes are allegedly include the wording that can be interpreted as “the way opening Russia to the placement of garrison forces in Belarus”. “These projects of constitutional changes may indicate plans to allow placement on the territory of both the usual and nuclear forces of Russia,” he stressed.
The representative of the department noted that the discussions on nuclear weapons in Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko began in November last year.
Previously, Alexander Lukashenko said that the process of change in the constitution was “absolutely not needed”. The updated version of the Belarusian Constitution contains additional restrictions on the presidency, as well as the provisions on the Great Patriotic War. Vote for or against the adoption of amendments to citizens of Belarus to be in the second half of February.