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Lukashenko: Belarus will try hard to restore and strengthen trust between CSTO countries

MINSK, 20 June (BelTA) – Belarus will do everything possible to restore and strengthen trust between partners within the CSTO, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with the ministers of foreign affairs of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Minsk on 20 June, BelTA has learned.

“Solidarity, unity and cooperation underlie the concept of our presidency in the CSTO,” the head of state said. He expressed gratitude to the member countries of the organization for supporting the priorities of the Belarusian presidency in the CSTO, which, as the president is sure, meet common interests.

“We proceed from the fact that today the most important area of work is to secure the settlement of crises within the CSTO zone. If assistance is needed from Belarus, and in this case our initiatives, they will be suggested. We will do everything possible to restore and strengthen trust between our partners,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed. “The CSTO is not an aggressive or offensive military and political bloc. It is an organization of an exclusively defensive nature with a constructive and unifying agenda.”

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