Alexander Lukashenko responded to critics who accuse Belarus of pursuing a multi-vector policy.
To those who claim that the recent pardons of citizens called political prisoners are due to a desire to turn towards the West.
The President voiced his answer at a meeting with Smolensk Governor Vasily Anokhin.
Whoever is there in Russia, I am already saying, does not yelp: "Look, Lukashenko, multi-vectorism... Again he released these political prisoners, several dozen. This means, he is already going to the West," the head of state's press service quotes him as saying.
He called this “thinking so primitive that it can’t get any more primitive.”
Our main foreign policy message and our aspiration is to live in peace with our neighbors, they are from God, the Belarusian leader said.
What should we do now, he continued, if Belarusians have been neighbors with Poles for centuries, and Warsaw today “takes such a disgusting position” in relation to Minsk.
Are the Poles to blame for this? Well, to some extent, yes – they elect them. But for the most part, the Poles want to live peacefully with us, the President noted.
The same applies, according to him, to Ukrainians, Lithuanians, and Latvians, with whom Belarus is trying to calmly and purposefully build relations.
Lukashenko noted that Minsk is building relations with Moscow in exactly the same way.
For reference
Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko is the President of the Republic of Belarus and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Belarus.
