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Lukashenko rules out talks with self-exiled opposition

MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) – I don’t see any reasons why I should negotiate with representatives of the Belarusian self-exiled opposition, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he answered journalists’ questions in Minsk on 22 August, BelTA has learned.

“Now they want to sit down at the negotiating table. Ideally, as they reason, with Lukashenko,” the head of state noted. “Who should I sit down with? With those who ruined the country? All right, I could step over that, but what good can they bring? Will they help us: the people, the state? They are no help to us. If you walk through the mud, it may get stuck with you. Why would I need that? I don’t need it.”

“We do not forbid anyone to talk, please go ahead. But I have nothing to discuss with them,” Aleksandr Lukashenko added.

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