President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia and Belarus should expand the integration process in all directions
“We should [integrate] in the economy, in people and so on. Absolutely nothing should get in the way. Moreover, [to] Russia, on the contrary, we must be closer, and then the political issues will go. And when people see that we have been languishing in the same place for thirty years building the Union State, they reasonably ask the question: why?” said Lukashenko in an interview to the program”, – Actors with Nailia Asker-zade on Russia-1 TV channel.
He stressed that “neither Belarus nor Russia has closer relations with other countries than with each other,” but there are shortcomings in the cooperation between the two countries. Lukashenka noted the need to create “equal conditions for people and economic entities within the framework of the Union State”.