Mr Tokayev’s office quoted him as saying on Telegram that he “appreciated his joke”, but that Kazakhstan was already a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, a broader trade bloc headed by Russia, and that no further integration was necessary. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Kazakh president, responded to Mr Lukashenko’s comments by dismissing the invitation to join the union. There can only be one solution: a tough stance of nuclear states relevant UN/IAEA resolutions extensive sanctions against Rosatom systemic financial sanctions against Belarus and ultimately against Russia.” Kazakh president dismisses inivitation He wrote on Twitter on Monday: “This fundamentally undermines the principles of global security. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said that the “nuclear” statements from Mr Lukashenko “directly indicate that the Russian Federation is deliberately ‘killing’ the concept of global nuclear deterrence and ‘burying’ the key Global Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons”. Mr Lukashenko went on to say he was expressing his own views and not those of the Kremlin. That’s all: there will be nuclear weapons for everyone.” (then) it is very simple: join in the Union State of Belarus and Russia. “No one is against Kazakhstan and other countries having the same close relations that we have with the Russian Federation. Mr Lukashenko said in an interview aired on Russian state television on Sunday evening that it must be “strategically understood” that Minsk and Moscow have a unique chance to unite. The former Soviet country has been one of Putin’s closest allies in the fight against Ukraine, already allowing Russia to maintain troops and weapons there.
The move, which is to be the first deployment of nuclear warheads outside of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, has been met with opposition in the West. Mr Lukashenko told reporters in Moscow that “the movement of the nuclear weapons has already begun”. The statement came just days after the countries’ defence ministers signed an agreement allowing Moscow to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, has said there will be “nuclear weapons for everyone” should they choose to join a Russia-Belarus union.
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