MINSK/BISHKEK. Nov 27 (Interfax) - Belarus does not regard NATO's activities as a direct military threat, but the country is working out adequate retaliatory measures, Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said.
"We do not deem [NATO's] actions as a direct military threat. However, we have to take this into consideration in the planning of our military policy and the military and political strategy. As the Belarusian head of state said, we will also take it into account while working out adequate response measures," Makei told reporters in Bishkek on Wednesday, commenting on issues discussed at a joint meeting between the foreign ministers, defense ministers, and the secretaries of the security councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states.
The BelTA state news agency quoted the foreign minister's words.
"We also identified this [NATO's activities] as an issue which causes Belarus concern," Makei said.
Acting Secretary General of the organization Valery Semerikov reported at a meeting on the situation along the CSTO external borders, Makei said. "He briefed them on those actions which have recently been undertaken by the North Atlantic Alliance on the western borders of our organization, and cited concrete facts," he said.
At the end of the meeting, the minister said that participants had discussed a number of important issues related to CSTO's promising activities. "Perhaps, no high-profile documents, which would immediately draw attention of media and public members, have been adopted, but many technical documents, which will facilitate the improvement of the organization's activity in various spheres and areas, have actually been endorsed," he said.
As reported, the country is exposed to a military danger due to U.S. tanks' deployment in Lithuania near the Belarusian border, Belarusian Defense Minister Andrei Ravkov said on November 12.