In response to the U.S. and West sanctions on Belarus, the statement said Russia and Belarus do not allow any economic pressure or appliance of high-handed measures in relations among states.

Such measures amount to infringing on the legal economic interests of states and will adversely affect the ordinary people, in particular, it said.

Only dialogues based on equality and respect for each other can help remove international misunderstanding, it said, stressing any action laying an obstacle in the efforts for the dialogue should be refrained.