Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko said on Sunday after his vote in the presidential election that protests in Slovakia and Serbia are coordinated from abroad and are governed by the United States. He also expressed his willingness to conduct a dialogue with the European Union in his next term, TASR reports according to the Belarusian state news agency Belta.
“All actions are completely coordinated and everything is managed from the United States. Most of them are funded by the United States. So who pays the money, he orders music, “Lukashenko said on the margo of protests.
He also added that he was never against good relationships with the West. According to him, however, these countries are not interested. “Should we bow to them or ask for their favor? We are ready to conduct a dialogue with the European Union, even those who led to us hostile policy, “said the President of Belarus.
Europe is waiting for problems, he says
Under the leadership of Donald Trump, the US will receive the European Union, according to Lukashenko, in such a position that he will not be able to stand on his feet for many decades or centuries, cited by Belta. “With the arrival of Trump to power, it will not be Belarus that will resist the problems. Problems will appear in Europe, “he warned when she answered the question of journalist BBC.
So Europe, in his words, has only one option, namely to implement its own policy. The EU is a strong union and has a strong economy and currency, he added. He is convinced that the planet will be more stable if it stands on many pillars. “The European Union, the United States, China, India, Russia – these are many pillars that could keep our planet together.”
The Kremlin ally, who has been in power for more than 30 years, and according to AFP has introduced an authoritarian government in the country, he added that his country is a democracy. “We do not put pressure on anyone and we don’t die.”
He wants to evaluate democracy
He proposed to draw up joint criteria for the evaluation of democracy and unite them for all countries. In his words, it is necessary to define what democracy means. “Maybe there are any democracy criteria? Let us define and use these criteria for the evaluation of the United States, Britain, Brussels and Minsk. It is not right to use some criteria for evaluating us and others for evaluating them, “he said.
In his words, he is willing to have a dialogue with the opposition. However, he considers the opposition “those people who stayed in the country … and have decision -making authority”.
The polling stations on the occasion of the presidential election in Belarus opened on Sunday morning at 8.00 local time (6.00 CET). This is the first election of the head of state from massive protests after the elections five years ago, in which the current President Lukashenko won the current. The Belarusian opposition described them as manipulated and Lukashenko’s victory refused to recognize several countries, including the EU and the US.
Unlike the 2020 elections, only symbolic challengers who do not openly criticize the Belarusian leader on Sunday against Lukashenko will be opposed to Lukashenko. Most of the relevant opposition politicians are behind bars, in exile or their candidacy was rejected by the election commission.
