Deputy PM to Belsat TV: What's EU-Russia trade war got to do with Belarus-Poland relations?
At an investment forum in Warsaw a Belsat journalist asked Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Rusy what impact a trade war between Russia and the West has on the Belarusian-Polish relations.
Mr Rusy started to skate around the rink: “This is life. This is philosophy. Read about three principles of philosophy: negation of negation, unity and struggle of opposites, transformation of quantity into quality. That’s why a number of meetings, approachs, collecting of materials, negotiations, consultation result in qualitative solutions.”
There should always be the truth everywhere, the Deputy Prime Minister stressed. “This regards both journalists and other people. Sometimes one watches [television – Belsat] and the truth is bent. And this scarifies politicians. But still [they] should watch, know and listen to, because people read all this. And what hurts the most is when people see that something goes wrong,” Mr Rusy said.
The top official also added that he had recently seen a movie made by Belsat TV but failed to specify which one. “You know which one,” he told the journalist.
There has been documentary ‘General of an Unfinished War’ about Stanislau Bulak-Balakhovich, the first general of the Belarusian National Republic, among films televised by Belsat this week.
When our journalist asked Mr Rusy to detail his answering the question about the Belarusian-Polish relations, the official said: “What’s EU-Russia trade war got to do with Belarus-Poland relations? We are sitting here, signing, solving problems, business is being developed.”
On December, 1-2 Warsaw was hosting the Polish-Belarusian Investment Forum which was visited by Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Rusy and other officials. The sides signed an agreement on the cooperation in the fields of crude oil refining, furniture making, etc. Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechociński pointed out that roads and bridges, not walls, shoud be constructed between Poland and Belarus.
“The Slavic nations on both sides of the frontier know well that man and work are more important than wars, troubled moments and shells,” he said.
Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Rusy is an alumnus of the Belarusian Agriculture Academy and Minsk Higher Party School. In 2001-2003 he was Minister of Agriculture and Food, but president Lukashenka dismissed him for ‘failure to comply with orders of the head of state’. In 2010 Mr Rusy was re-appointed Minister of Agriculture and Food; in 2012 he became a Deputy Prime Minister.
