Lukashenko: events in Syria are a lesson for all of us
The events in Syria are a lesson for Belarus, Head of State Aleksandr Lukashenko noted during today’s conversation with POZHSNAB staff in the Borisov District
Answering the relevant question, Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed, “This is a lesson for us. We must determine our own destiny. And no one else should be in here.”
In this regard, the President once again responded to the sometimes heard reproaches that Russia had allegedly occupied Belarus, “Not with me. Nobody has occupied anybody here. I’m grateful to them for helping us. Recently I said that we have one Fatherland, and we have nothing to share.”
The Head of State said that Syrian ex-president Bashar al-Assad was not a dictator; he had no resources for that. Aleksandr Lukashenko sees the West’s involvement in the current events, “They had to break it. There’s enough oil and gas there. It is necessary to lay a gas pipeline from somewhere through Syria to the Mediterranean coast. All this is in the interests of the West and Americans. And they play the main role there.”
At the same time, the President of Belarus is sure that the opposition forces in Syria, as they are called, whatever they are, will not break off relations with us, with Russia, “They’re not idiots. They will at least rely on two wings. The West is the West, the power is there and so on, Syrians do not need to quarrel with them. But they will not break off relations with us either. If they do, consider that Americans and the West did it, including the Syrian opposition. We’ll wait and see.”
