Russia appreciates the firm position of Belarus not to politicize the format of the "Eastern Partnership" on the issue of the Russian Federation and develop normal relations with the European Union, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
"We very much appreciated the firm position of Belarus along with a number of other participants in the Eastern Partnership against such attempts," Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Belarussian television channel STV.
"In the final declaration, despite the desire of some participants of the summit, there are no otherworldly things not directly related to the relations of the focus countries with the EU, we see a big role, including Belarus, which did not allow this process to be politicized, ideologized and which sees in it its fundamental interest to develop normal relations with Western Europeans. I think that here we did not discern any discrepancies … We have no doubts and suspicions regarding Belarus, Armenia and Azerbaijan," the Russian Foreign Minister noted.