Vaclav Havel: “Dictatorship in Belarus would to end and country will join NATO”
15- 12.03.2009, 14:49
The NATO should include Belarus and Ukraine in the future, believes the former Czech president Vaclav Havel. As informed by the CTK agency from the Czech Republic, the politician told about that in an interview to Czech Radio (CRo).
The Czech Republic joined NATO along with Hungary and Poland 10 years ago, on March 12, 1999. As said by V. Havel, the country's accession to NATO was a result of a long process because the Alliance was unsure whether to offer membership to countries that had been part of the Warsaw Pact.
"The alliance is defined both by common values and geographically, it cannot extend forever," he said.
Havel said he believed that NATO should end at the Belarusian-Russian border or the Ukrainian-Russian border.
He expressed hope that the dictatorship in Belarus and confusion in Ukraine would end and both countries became NATO members.
According to him, a new security system should be formed in the Caucasian region, including Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia that would guarantee independence to one another.
