“Belarus does not want to be on the line of a civilizational rift, on the edge of a bloc confrontation between Russia, on the one hand, and NATO, on the other, or with the Western world as a whole,” BelTA quotes his words.
Noting the special role of the location of Belarus, Makei said that the country is located on the border between the NATO member states and the CSTO.
In September, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the North Atlantic Alliance is interested in cooperation with Belarus, including on arms control issues.
According to the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Stanislav Zasy, relations between Belarus and the NATO bloc and neighboring countries are not developing to the detriment of cooperation with Russia.