There can be no strategic partnership between Ukraine and Belarus, because this republic is an ally of Putin’s Russia. Such an opinion was expressed by the member of the UKROP political council, chairman of the board of Maidan of Foreign Affairs Fund Bohdan Yaremenko, commenting on the intentions of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko to revive relations between the two states.
“Naturally there can be no strategic partnership with a country that does not recognize the territorial integrity of Ukraine, is not self-sufficient and also acts as an ally of the state, Ukraine is fighting against,” wrote Bohdan Yaremenko on his Facebook page on the eve of the meeting of the Ukrainian President and his colleague from Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
The politician has also stressed that such direction of the foreign policy course is unclear even for the official theorists of Ukraine’s international relations. In particular, the National Institute for Strategic Studies notes that “in the Ukrainian foreign policy, the concept of strategic partnership has not yet received the final meaning”.
According to the representative of UKROP, the only strategic thing that exists between Ukraine and Belarus is rivalry. This does not exclude bilateral trade relations, but calls into question the expediency of pompous visits. He has also noted that decorating the Independence Square in Kyiv with the flags of the Byelorussian SSR before the visit of Alexander Lukashenko to the Ukrainian capital is an outrage over the victims of the Revolution of Dignity and Russian aggression.
“But has such a delicate matter ever interested Poroshenko or the City Mayor Klitschko? We expect a further fall ... Probably, we should wait for a visit of another strategic partner – Vladimir Putin,” added Bohdan Yaremenko.
