ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO said :
Dmitry Anatolyevich,
I would like once again, officially this time, to thank you for coming here on this day of such important memory for us and our peoples.
I think that people here feel that we truly have always been together and will never live apart. You were very right in saying that today, politically, legally – however you look at it – we have established a unified state in which we defend these borders together. We have a common customs post just a few metres from where we are now. It is important to give real substance to everything we have done so far.