Lukashenko condemns Merkel's recent statements on Minsk agreements

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was petty and vile in her recent statements about the peace talks in Minsk and the Minsk agreements concluded a few years ago to resolve the situation in Ukraine, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in Bishkek answering journalists' questions, BelTA has learned. In a nutshell, Merkel said that at that time she considered the Minsk agreements as an opportunity to give Kiev time to build up its power and military resources. “I told Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] what I thought about it. If things were really like that, it is disgusting.

But they were not like that. The real situation is not just disgusting, it is abominable. Merkel… I didn't expect it either.

And the president of Russia said the same: he didn't expect such an attack from Angela Merkel. She acted in petty, obnoxious way. She wants to be in trend.

Back then Merkel, like others, including Poroshenko, was very serious about the Minsk agreements. Indeed, after the Minsk meetings, the whole world was saying that finally this step was made and these agreements were signed. The war stopped, people stopped dying.

All this was positively assessed,” said the president. Aleksandr Lukashenko is sure that it is not as simple as it sounds now in the statements by Angela Merkel and Petro Poroshenko: “Today, at the background of the ongoing developments they are saying that she, Poroshenko, this Hollande [France's former president François Hollande] whom she led by the hand in front of me allegedly carried out a secret operation, deceived everyone, primarily Russia, Putin, and everyone in the world; they got a pause that let the Ukrainian army prepare for this war… If this were so, it would be too easy. They cheated,