President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that his country does not lay claim to Lithuanian, Polish or Ukrainian lands.
According to him, Belarus does not need Vilnius and Bialystok. “We do not lay claim to Vilna, Bialystochina, Russian or Ukrainian lands,” Lukashenko said at the general meeting of the Belkoopsoyuz, BELTA reports. The Belarusian leader noted that the republic “has enough of what it has historically received.”
At the same time, in his congratulations to the Lithuanians on the national holiday – State Restoration Day – Lukashenko emphasized that Belarus “has always been interested in a peaceful, prosperous Lithuania.”
“Just a few years ago, no one could even imagine that Lithuanian politicians would be able to so thoughtlessly ban us from visiting Lithuania, build walls with barbed wire on the common border, point weapons at us and even tell us how to live in our country,” it says. Lukashenko’s address. He also expressed confidence that the current situation in relations between the two countries “does not correspond to the aspirations of ordinary Lithuanians.”
Before this, Lukashenko announced the opposition’s plans to annex western Russia to Belarus and the detention of saboteurs on the border with Ukraine and the completion of the counter-terrorism operation.
Source: Rosbalt
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