Martynau: Russia, EU most important partners

Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynau told reporters in Brussels on July 28 that Minsk views the Eastern Partnership program as a natural priority, and the EU and Russia as its most important partners.
A number of specific projects that could be carried out within the Eastern Partnership have already been proposed by Belarus to neighbor countries and the European Commission, Interfax quoted him as saying.

 

He said that Minsk has not yet decided whether or not to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states, describing the issue as “complex.”