00:00President Lukashenko, colleagues, first of all, I would like to thank President Lukashenko
00:10for this invitation to visit Minsk and for the traditionally warm reception that our
00:17delegation was given.
00:22A lot of work had been done by experts and governments on both sides, and this session
00:31has been very productive.
00:35There are still issues that we need to work on, but still all our previous meetings had
00:45been aimed at fixing some outstanding matters given the extraordinary range of our cooperation.
01:01By this moment, almost all issues have been agreed upon and coordinated.
01:08Of course, there's still work to be done, and we're going to do that, and I'm sure we'll
01:16reach outstanding results because there's willingness and enthusiasm on both sides to
01:22continue this constructive work, and that means solutions will be found.
01:30And I'm sure President Lukashenko will agree with me here that there are no issues that
01:38would cause any dissatisfaction on either part.
01:43There are no such issues right now.
01:46There are areas to work on.
01:50We have just signed two very important treaties on the single market for electric energy and
01:58on joint guarantees of security.
02:01This treaty is of fundamental importance.
02:06Both these treaties are of fundamental importance, and this treaty on guarantees of security
02:17outlines Russia's and Belarus' obligations to ensure each other's security using all
02:24means and instruments available.
02:31So we went forward to satisfy the President of Belarus' request to deploy tactical nuclear
02:39weapons in Belarus, and the latest state-of-the-art systems as Oreshnik, they have no rivals in
02:49the world.
02:50If used in clusters, they are comparable to nuclear weapons, but they are not weapons
02:57of mass destruction.
03:00First of all, unlike weapons of mass destruction, these are high-precision weapons.
03:04It's not a carpet weapon.
03:11And if used in multiple quantities, in one, two or three complexes, they deal as much
03:21damage as nuclear weapons, but it doesn't pollute the territory.
03:26There is no radiation fallout afterwards because there is no nuclear component in their
03:31warheads.
03:36And as for the possibility of deploying a weapon as advanced as Oreshnik in Belarus,
03:45since we have signed a treaty to guarantee each other's security using all means and
03:51weapons available, I think deployment of complexes like Oreshnik in the territory of
03:57Belarus is possible.
03:59That's one.
04:01Number two, I think this will be possible in the second half of the next year, as the
04:11production, the mass production of these missiles is ramped up, and as these missile complexes
04:20are fielded by the Russian Strategic Missile Services, and there are a number of technical
04:28matters to be settled by specialists and experts, and that's determining the minimum range,
04:38considering the security priorities of the Republic of Belarus.
04:44That's up to experts, and I think...
04:50And this is going to require minimum spending, considering the fact that Belarus still has
05:00infrastructure left over from the Soviet Union, from the times of Soviet Union, and I think
05:09this will require minimum spending.
05:14And of course, despite the fact that these missiles will be part of the Russian missile
05:21complex of the Russian Federation, determining the targets on the territory of possible adversary
05:36will remain at the discretion of the military and political leadership of the Republic of Belarus.
05:42This is obvious, so we are going to discuss that later, and I'm sure that specialists
05:54understand this.
05:57The shorter the range, the more powerful the warheads, the payload.
06:07I'm perfectly satisfied with this response.
06:10And I look forward to the second half of the next year.
06:19By that time, according to our preliminary estimates, we will have started mass production
06:29of those missiles, and they will be fielded by the Russian Strategic Missile Services,
06:34and we will start deploying them in the territory of Belarus.
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