Aliaksandr Alesin: Belarusan units can be set in motion in Syria

It is most likely to happen next year; of course, only if UN Security Council adopts the resolution on the use of peacemakers from are employed.

This opinion in the talk with the EuroBelarus Information Service shared the military analyst Aliaksandr Alesin. According to his words, during the joint military Russia-Belarus drill “West 2013” servicemen of the two countries have been working out their possible participation in military conflicts in Central Asia and the Middle East. The counteraction to the raiding parties and illegal paramilitary groups, which has been practices during the military drill, is no Belarusan scenario, believes Aliaksandr Alesin. However, we cannot exclude the possibility that Syria wouldn’t insist on including Collective Rapid Reaction Force of countries-members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). As Aliaksandr Alesin recalled, two police riot squads participate in CRRF on the part of Belarus.

- I believe that everything will depend on the development of situation in Syria. If rebels will repel the destruction of chemical arms in Syria, then, according to the official Russian position voiced by Sergei Shoigu anti-terrorist units will be sent there to support specialists. Still, it all depends on UN resolution, in which the mechanism of the destruction of chemical arms and safety measures are to be provided. However, I believe that considering the date when chemical arms have to be destroyed (up to the middle of 2014) Belarusan police riot squads together with the Russian ones can be employed by this time already. Syrian government doesn’t feel rejection towards Russia and CSTO. Safety can be as well provided by the military men from Muslim countries. We can also make a supposition that if UN issues the mandate, then all six countries-members of CSTO might send a proportional art of their military men in the frame of peacekeeping mission.

By the way, as Aliaksandr Alesin mentioned, all the military men who can be sent abroad will go there voluntarily. And the fact that enlisted men cannot be used in peacekeeping missions abroad is specified in legislation.

Let us recall that on September 28 UN Security Council has adopted a resolution that supports the destruction of the chemical arms in Syria. The document was adopted by votes of 15 countries-members of the worldwide organization and reinforced Syrian plan to destroy poisonous substances in the country, making it compulsory. The plan is going to be implemented within the shortest possible time.

According to the approved “roadmap”, the experts of the organization were to leave for Syria for inspection on October 1 and submit the report till the end of the month.

The plan presupposes that the destruction of production facilities at Syrian facilities will be completed till October 1, whereas final destruction of chemical weapons’ arsenals should take place by the middle of the next year.