MINSK, February 26. /TASS/. The Council of the Republic (the upper house) of the National Assembly of Belarus ratified on Wednesday the Russia-Belarus Union State Treaty on Security Guarantees.
Earlier in the day, the House of Representatives (the lower house) of the National Assembly of Belarus also ratified this document.
Specifically, the document stipulates that "military and other facilities of the Russian Federation may be set up and Russian military formations may be deployed on Belarusian territory for the purpose of preventing and repelling acts of aggression against the Republic of Belarus."
After both houses of the Belarusian parliament passed the bill to ratify the treaty the document will be sent for signing by the country’s president.
The State Duma and the Federation Council (Russian parliament’s lower and upper houses) ratified the document on February 18 and 26 correspondingly. The document was signed in Minsk on December 6, 2024.
Under the Treaty, the parties undertake to support each other with all methods and means agreed upon and permitted by international law and take corresponding actions in the political, military and other spheres in case of threats to the security of ether party and the Union State as a whole.
Pursuant to the Treaty, Russia and Belarus will deem an armed attack on a member of the Union State as an act of aggression against the Union State as a whole and will take appropriate retaliatory measures using all forces and capabilities at their disposal.
In addition, the parties regard Russian nuclear weapons as an important factor of preventing the emergence of nuclear military conflicts or military conflicts with the use of conventional weapons, as well as a deterrent that can be used only as an extreme and last-resort measure.
In accordance with the document, Russia’s nuclear weapons may be employed in response to the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction against any of the parties to the Treaty. They can also be used in case of aggression against either party with the use of conventional weapons that creates a critical threat to its sovereignty or territorial integrity. A decision on using Russian nuclear weapons deployed on the territory of Belarus for the purpose of its protection will be taken in a procedure established by the parties.