In his lengthy and informative May 19 interview to the Washington Post, Foreign Minister of Belarus Uadzimir Makei responded to four variations of one and the same persistent question: Should Belarus develop its relations more with the West or with Russia? Makei stood his ground, insisting this question had a Cold War ring to it (Mfa.gov.by, May 24), hence the title of the Post’s published excerpt (May 26) from the interview: “We want to be friends with everybody.”
Foreign Minister Makei’s interview, the full text of which was published by Belarus’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, included a number of noteworthy …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation