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3. Lukashenka had spoken in support of Ukrainians and Ukrainian unity
Wed May 7, 2014, 01:39 PM
May 2014

and has stalled the signing of the EEU pact. At the occasion of his annual address on April 22nd he said this:

Before the Q&A session President Lukashenka limited the issue of Eurasian integration to a few formal remarks. But when an MP asked him about the prospects for the Belarusian economy after the launch of the Eurasian Economic Union in January 2015 Lukashenka made quite a strong statement.

He said that he would sign the founding treaty only after the removal of all limitations and exemptions from the free trade regime was concluded: “if you want to sign the treaty on the economic union today and lift these limitations in 15 years, as Putin suggests, then we will sign the treaty in 15 years”.
http://belarusdigest.com/story/lukashenkas-state-nation-address-top-5-messages-17618


and more recently...

Lukashenko: Belarus cannot enter the Eurasian Economic Union on an unequal footing
BORISOV, 3 May (BelTA) – Lukashenko: Belarus cannot enter the Eurasian Economic Union on an unequal footing to the detriment of its own interests. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement while talking to employees of the Belarusian-Chinese car company SZAO BelGee, BelTA has learned.
http://www.news.nom.co/lukashenko-belarus-cannot-enter-the-9299143-news/ (cached)


The EEU agreement signing seems to be continuously postponed. The expense of the Crimean annexation seems to have cut into the amount available to aid potential EEU partners.

But Lukashenka will sign eventually.

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