Minsk - Belarus will offer Russia its territory for the deployment of nuclear weapons if the nuclear weapons of NATO countries end up in Poland, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti reports.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said earlier that if Germany refuses to deploy nuclear weapons, they may end up in other European countries, including to the east of Germany.
"(In this case - Ed.) I will propose (to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir - Ed.) Putin should return nuclear weapons to Belarus," Lukashenko said.
To the clarifying question about which systems we are talking about, the head of state noted: "We will agree on which one." "The nuclear weapons that will be most effective in such contact. We are ready for this on the territory of Belarus. I'm being diligent, sorry, the owner didn't destroy anything. All the "sheds" are in place," he added.
After the collapse of the USSR, dozens of charges for strategic intercontinental missiles "Topol" and more than a thousand tactical nuclear warheads were located on Belarusian territory. The withdrawal of nuclear weapons was the result of the signing by Minsk of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
