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“I have no information on this yet and therefore I cannot comment on this statement by the President of Belarus in any way,” Peskov told reporters on Friday.
Lukashenko said Thursday that representatives in Warsaw and Berlin had talked about faking the Navaln poisoning that “V. Putin would be denied the urge to poke his nose in Belarus.”
He said this during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, citing an allegedly intercepted conversation between unidentified Polish and German officials.
Lukashenko told Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who was visiting Minsk, that a conversation between Berlin and Warsaw officials showed the incident was a “fake.”
“There was no poisoning of Navaln,” Lukashenko told Mišustin in a televised meeting.
“It just came to our knowledge then [Rusijos prezidentą Vladimirą] Putin does not interfere in the affairs of Belarus, “Lukashenko told the Russian prime minister, who listened without emotion.
The head of state did not provide more detailed information, but promised to share the copies with the Russian security services.
The former leader of Belarus has come under heavy pressure from opposition protesters in the country to resign after the controversial presidential elections on August 9.
Tens of thousands of people have been participating in unprecedented demonstrations on weekends for more than a week before Lukashenko’s 26-year rule.
A statement on Navalna could be one way to win the most Moscow support for Lukashenko during the protests.
Leonid Volkov, a close associate of Navaln, called the statement absurd, claiming that the Russian prime minister was an accessory in the “assassination attempt” because he was involved in “this circus.”
Germany said Wednesday that investigations into A. Nalavn showed that he had been poisoned by a substance from the same group as Novičiokas, which paralyzed the nerves. One of the leaders of the Russian opposition felt ill on a plane in Siberia last month and was later flown to Berlin for treatment.
Mikhail Mishustin, Alexander Lukashenko
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Navaln, 44, remains in an artificially induced coma, but his condition is improving, his German doctors said.
At the time, Lukashenko and Mishustin also said that the two countries had made progress in implementing plans to bring Russia and Belarus closer together.
In recent years, the Kremlin has sought closer economic and political integration among the states of the former USSR, but so far Lukashenko has opposed full unification.
Mr. Lukashenko and Mr. Putin will meet in Moscow in the coming weeks.
NATO holds a special meeting on Navaln poisoning
NATO’s main political decision-making body will hold a special meeting on Friday to discuss the poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navaln as European leaders threaten new sanctions on Moscow.
Navaln, 44, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, felt ill on August 20 on a plane to return to Moscow from Tomsk in Siberia. The plane landed in Omsk and initially Mr. Navaln was treated in a hospital in that city and then transferred to a clinic in Berlin for specialized treatment.
Western leaders demanded the Kremlin’s response to the Berlin announcement that there was “clear evidence” that Navaln had been exposed to nerve-crippling material from battle by the infamous Soviet-born Novičiok.
Two years ago material from the same group was used against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury, south-west England, and after a German report, many states and organizations condemned Russia.
Germany on Friday at 12 noon. 30 minutes. Brussels (13:30) Lithuania will report to the North Atlantic Council meeting in time, after which NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will address the media.
The Skripal case, the first use of a chemical weapon in Europe since World War II, led to the expulsion of seven Russian diplomats from NATO.
The head of European Union diplomacy, Joseph Borrell, has previously asked Moscow to cooperate in an international investigation into the Navaln poisoning and said the bloc would not rule out sanctions.
Brussels condemns “this attempt to kill” in “the strongest words possible,” Borrell said in a statement.
The EU has declared that the use of chemical weapons “is completely unacceptable in all circumstances. [ir] it is a serious violation of international law and international human rights standards. “
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