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3 Oct 2014

Lukashenko: Situation in Ukraine can be stabilized within one year

MINSK, 3 October (BelTA) – The present situation in Ukraine can be stabilized within a year provided Ukraine, Russia, and the West are in favor of it. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko voiced the opinion in an interview with the TV channel Euronews, BelTA has learned.

Alexander Lukashenko remarked that he closely monitors the situation in Ukraine. “I do it not because I’d love to be a peacemaker or something. No. But because these events are taking place near our borders, they happen to our brothers, our kind of people. It explains my interest as a man and as the president of Belarus”.

“Certainly, I make some conclusions and deductions. I am not saying I am drawing some plans, but I have my own point of view on events in Ukraine and I have advice to offer with regard to the issues Ukraine faces,” said the Belarusian head of state.

“I won’t go into details, but if I was told: ‘Listen, Lukashenko, there is a disaster in Ukraine, something has to be done, are you ready and can you do it?’, I would do my best. And I think that provided Ukraine, Russia, and the West want it, the situation over there can be stabilized within a year,” believes the Belarusian leader.

“But if that happened, then my mission would involve huge difficulties because in the course of implementing these ideas, I’d have to affect interests of both the West and Russia, interests of many politicians, including politicians in Ukraine. But I guarantee that such actions of mine would receive nearly universal acclaim of the people of Ukraine. Univocal. Both in Crimea and in Ukraine’s southeast and the rest of Ukraine. Acclaim by an overwhelming majority of Ukrainians, nearly 100%,” said Alexander Lukashenko.

“If the West wants peace and stability over there, they should go ahead and say so. Then together we will do something,” added the Belarusian leader. “But such a plan was once offered to the West. We’ve had this talk in Russia, too. There was no positive response from either”.

Alexander Lukashenko stressed that he would not like to speak about these plans in public. He noted that the plans go beyond the cessation of armed hostilities in Ukraine’s southeast to include the stabilization of the situation in Ukraine as a whole.

“I can tell you one thing: if it is necessary — and it is a very dangerous and frightful thing for me since Russia distrusts the West, the West distrusts Russia, America distrusts Russia, and Russia distrusts America, and the warring sides distrust each other — I would be ready to use my own armed forces in order to separate the conflicting sides. Provided the arrangements that are specified in advance are observed without failures,” noted the Belarus President.

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