Lukashenko: Decisions about Belarus’ future must be taken inside the country
<p> MINSK, Jun 4 - PrimePress. All decisions affecting Belarus’ future should be made only inside the country and by us, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting to appoint the new government on Jun 4. </p> <p> </p> <p> “Remember you and everyone who hears me: they won’t get this country. We have been picking crumbs for more than two decades to create this flourishing country, not to let them privatize the country and drain dry these poor people... We need to keep our independence and sovereignty as the apple of our eye. Their economic component is our government's area of responsibility. We cannot allow even the slightest loss of national authority in the area. All decisions affecting Belarus should be made only within the country and by us,” said Lukashenko, as reported by the president’s press-service. </p> <p> </p> <p> He reminded that peace and stability is one of the greatest achievements of Belarus. “The only post-Soviet country that has not seen any misfortunes. Some Belarusians think that it is somewhere far away that Ukraine has been destroyed, the war is going on there, some territory of it has been taken away. Somewhere far away is Moldova which has been divided in half, Transnistria and the western part. They have forgotten how Lithuania fought to defend its independence and sovereignty during the Soviet times under Gorbachev. They have forgotten that today the Caucasus is still in flames, Armenians are at war with Azerbaijanis, and they cannot agree. They have forgotten that Georgia lost almost a third of its territory - first Abkhazia, then South Ossetia. Finally, no one knows how my friend Rahmon went with a machine gun to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, to restore order, how many people died there, how they fought. They have forgotten how former President Karimov in Andijan suppressed the military coup by shooting thousands of people. Everyone condemned him, and when he died, they would kneel down, weep and cry. We did not have it, so we do not want to understand it, at least some of us. So we will remind them then,” said Lukashenko. End </p>
2020-06-05
Primepress
Lukashenko: Decisions about Belarus’ future must be taken inside the country
MINSK, Jun 4 - PrimePress. All decisions affecting Belarus’ future should be made only inside the country and by us, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting to appoint the new government on Jun 4.
“Remember you and everyone who hears me: they won’t get this country. We have been picking crumbs for more than two decades to create this flourishing country, not to let them privatize the country and drain dry these poor people... We need to keep our independence and sovereignty as the apple of our eye. Their economic component is our government's area of responsibility. We cannot allow even the slightest loss of national authority in the area. All decisions affecting Belarus should be made only within the country and by us,” said Lukashenko, as reported by the president’s press-service.
He reminded that peace and stability is one of the greatest achievements of Belarus. “The only post-Soviet country that has not seen any misfortunes. Some Belarusians think that it is somewhere far away that Ukraine has been destroyed, the war is going on there, some territory of it has been taken away. Somewhere far away is Moldova which has been divided in half, Transnistria and the western part. They have forgotten how Lithuania fought to defend its independence and sovereignty during the Soviet times under Gorbachev. They have forgotten that today the Caucasus is still in flames, Armenians are at war with Azerbaijanis, and they cannot agree. They have forgotten that Georgia lost almost a third of its territory - first Abkhazia, then South Ossetia. Finally, no one knows how my friend Rahmon went with a machine gun to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, to restore order, how many people died there, how they fought. They have forgotten how former President Karimov in Andijan suppressed the military coup by shooting thousands of people. Everyone condemned him, and when he died, they would kneel down, weep and cry. We did not have it, so we do not want to understand it, at least some of us. So we will remind them then,” said Lukashenko. End