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Lukashenko: We don’t attack Ukraine, we don’t bomb Ukraine, we advocate negotiations

MINSK, 17 March (BelTA) – Belarus is exceptionally in favor of negotiations and a peaceful resolution of the situation in Ukraine. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement in an interview with the Japanese TV channel TBS on 17 March, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “Not a single Belarusian soldier is fighting in Ukraine in this situation. Despite the hostile attitude Ukraine took towards Belarus when prompted by the West (we’ve turned over this page) I called Zelenskyy and suggested immediate negotiations with Russia. Literally on the third or fourth day of this war. And he accepted the proposal. We organized three rounds of talks here, in Belarus. Now these negotiations will continue in the videoconference mode. They go on.”

The Belarusian leader stressed: “In other words, we don’t attack Ukraine, we don’t bomb Ukraine. We advocate negotiations. We would like these negotiations to end in this hall [the interview took place in the Green Hall of the Palace of Independence where Normandy Four talks took place in 2015 and where the Minsk agreements on resolving the conflict in Ukraine were worked out]. In this hall would be symbolical. Agreements on Ukraine were signed in Minsk back then.”

“This is why we advocate negotiations. We would like peace to be over there. If there is no peace over there, there will be no peace in Belarus with the passage of time. It is our position,” Aleksandr Lukashenko added.

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