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“If you want, let’s start the dialogue at some level, but without preconditions. Belarus did not deserve such a conversation,” Lukashenko said in a meeting with the media and the public.
Speaking about Western calls for the release of political prisoners, Lukashenko said: “We don’t have such an article. On what basis do you draw those conclusions? It would be different if journalists were to blame, but politicians are talking about it.” .
The authoritarian president also claimed that “he has never taken hostile steps towards Lithuania.”
Earlier, Lukashenko claimed that Minsk was not blackmailed by illegal migration and was only reacting to the situation.
“Illegal migration … We don’t blackmail anything, we don’t threaten anyone. You create the conditions so that we can react and react. Forgive us as much as we can and we pay… We respond according to our capabilities, ”he said.
This year, more than 4,000 people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. illegal migrants.
Lithuanian officials call the increased migration flows a hybrid aggression by the Belarusian regime. As a result, a state of emergency has been declared in the country. A decision has also been made to turn around people trying to cross the border illegally, which has significantly reduced the flow of people.
Last August, the controversial presidential election, the winner of which has been declared under Lukashenko since 1994, has sparked a wave of mass protests for several months. Western countries and the opposition consider the vote to be false.
The Minsk regime has suppressed these riots by brutal means: more than 35,000 people have been arrested. thousands of people were beaten by the police.
Advocates point out that there are more than 600 political prisoners in Belarus. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has repeatedly called on the Belarusian authorities to end human rights abuses.
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