MINSK. Dec 6 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a treaty on security guarantees in Minsk on Friday.
The presidents approved the security concept of the Union State after a meeting of the Supreme State Council of Russia and Belarus earlier that day.
The interstate treaty on security guarantees "establishes mutual obligations of the allies to defend and protect the sovereignty, independence and constitutional system of Russia and Belarus, the integrity and inviolability of the territory and external border of the Union State, using all available forces and means," Putin said in the meeting.
Putin said this includes the Russian tactical nuclear weapons deployed on the territory of Belarus at the suggestion of the Belarusian president.
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