During talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Rogozin said, "The purpose of my visit is to see what else we can do with our Belarusian colleagues, taking into account the situation in Ukraine."
A recent military-industrial commission with Belarusian partners in the Tatarstan capital of Kazan has discussed ways to " establish stable work so that production can be planned," he was quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying.
Ukraine was "a very painful topic," he said. "It is extremely wrongful today that the groundwork laid out with Ukrainian partners is now cut off by the Ukrainian side on the principle of 'cut off your nose to spite your face'."
For his part, Lukashenko said, "We don't quite like the situation that is developing around us."
"In this situation, we must be closer to each other, and in any situation we will be with Russia," he said, noting that Russia is a strategic ally of Belarus and that strategic interests of the two partners coincide.
The Belarusian president also said that close links with Russian enterprises will help to modernize the Belarusian military companies. "We have several dozen hi-tech enterprises in the military-industrial sector and in association with Russian enterprises, we could modernize our enterprises more efficiently," he said.
[globaltimes.cn]
2/4/14
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