REQUIRING ACCELERATION OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE UNION STATE OF BELARUS AND RUSSIA!

APPEAL
participants of the picket dedicated to the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia

  April 2 is the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia. On this day in 1996, the presidents of both states signed the Treaty on the Education of the Community of Belarus and Russia in Moscow. The fact of signing laid the foundation for the mutual integration of the two states. Then, as a result of a phased integration movement, on December 8, 1999, the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State was signed, the 20th anniversary of which we recently celebrated.

Throughout the centuries, the Belarusian people carried the desire for unity with the Russian people, despite the opposition during a significant part of the history of Belarus of its elites, who often took an anti-people’s position against the all-Russian unity.

In 2020, our peoples will celebrate the 640th anniversary of the Battle of Kulikovo, which played a significant role in the formation of the Russian state. Of great importance in the outcome of the battle was the participation in it on the side of Dmitry Donskoy troops of the principalities of Western Russia, that is, modern Belarus. The Belarusian people also did not forget that from the west, invaders and enslavers came mainly to its land, in response to which the Russian people helped.

The best years of the history of the Belarusian people are associated with the periods when Belarus was with Russia. The special heyday of Belarus as a state dates back to Soviet times.

This year we will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet Union in World War II, which was won thanks to the unity and friendship of all the peoples of the multinational USSR, including Russian and Belarusian. The Belarusian people also remember that many of the current giants of the Belarusian industry were created thanks to the fraternal help of the Soviet peoples.

The proximity of the Belarusian and Russian peoples is noted not only at the cultural and historical level, but also at the genetic level. According to recent studies, a significant part of the population of Belarus and Russia belongs to the same haplogroup, which testifies to their many thousand years of clan unity.

The need for the unity of modern Belarus and Russia also requires economic mutual benefit, which is reflected in the Treaty signed in 1999. It was signed in accordance with the will of the Belarusian people, who at a republican referendum on May 14, 1995 by a majority vote (83.3%) voted in favor of approving the issue of economic integration with the Russian Federation.

However, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Union Treaty, we regretted that, contrary to the will of the people, the integration process of the two states had stalled, and since then the Union State has not been fully created. So far, many articles of the signed Treaty have not been implemented: a truly unified economic space has not been created, there is no single monetary unit (currency) provided for in Article 13 of the Treaty, and the single citizenship of the Union State has not been fully implemented so that every citizen has equal rights to any its parts, which was provided for by the Treaty on the Equal Rights of Citizens of December 25, 1998, there is no Constitutional Act, etc.

On the issue of deepening the integration of Belarus and Russia at the end of 2019 - early 2020, intensive negotiations were held at the highest level, which, unfortunately, did not lead to a solution to this issue.

Moreover, in our media in Belarus at various levels recently began to actively discuss the issue of the loss of “independence” in the event of the implementation of the treaty and the creation of supranational bodies. But article 37 (paragraph 1) of the Treaty clearly states: “Acts of the Supreme State Council are adopted on the basis of unanimity of the participating states. An act shall not be adopted if one of the participating states is opposed to its adoption. ” This means the full sovereignty of the subjects of the Union State.

We believe that a large loss of sovereignty threatens Belarus in the event of a loss of ties with Russia. A living example is the once prosperous Ukraine, which, after the Neo-Bandera came to power as a result of the 2014 coup, breaking many ties with the Russian Federation, became one of the most backward and dependent republics in Europe.

Such a result was led by Ukraine to frenzied nationalism, which was propagated long before the coup, when the thesis “Ukraine is not Russia” was driven into public consciousness, which was used to contrast the two fraternal peoples in order to separate them. In this regard, we categorically oppose the imposition of a similar slogan “Belarus is not Russia” on our people. We also demand that our media stop using an expression such as “neighboring Russia”, replacing it with the following: “union Russia” or “fraternal Russia”, because We have many neighbors, and so far the only ally.

As for the economic development of Belarus, it is worth comparing: in the BSSR, which was part of the Soviet Union, even in the very last years of Soviet power, the Belarusianmuscle growth grew by 5% annually, and after 30 years, the industry of the modern Republic of Belarus, which according to the Constitution “independently carries out its domestic and foreign policy”, in 2019 managed to grow by only 1% compared to 2018 according to the National Statistical Committee of Belarus. When analyzing these figures, the question arises: who needs the independence that is realized in the modern Republic of Belarus? Apparently, someone needs, but not the working people.

Summing up the above, we, the participants of the picket dedicated to the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia, appeal to our peoples with the appeal:

    1. Intensify your activities in terms of promoting the benefits of uniting our states into a single Union State.
    2. Demand from the leadership of Belarus and Russia to accelerate the full implementation of the Treaty establishing the Union State of Belarus and Russia.

The union state of Belarus and Russia to be!



On behalf of the picket participants the appeal was signed by:

 B. B. ZELIKOV, Chairman of the Republican

Civil Committee of the Patriotic

public association "Fatherland"



V.V. DRACO, Chairman of the Republican Council of the public association "For Democracy, Social Progress and Justice",

deputy of the House of Representatives

National Assembly of Belarus I Convocation



Minsk, 04/02/2020