Lukashenko confident in good relations with Lithuania, Poland in the future

Belarus and its neighbors Lithuania and Poland will no doubt restore their ties in the future, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with the BelNPP personnel and builders, workers of social infrastructure and residents of Ostrovets on 3 November, BelTA has learned. One of the questions asked by residents of Ostrovets District concerned the possibility of restoring Belarus' relations with neighboring Poland and Lithuania, especially given the fact that elections have recently taken place in one of these countries, with the other ones to be held soon as well. The Ostrovets District residents asked the president whether it was possible that the voters in Lithuania would be able to make the authorities in Lithuania work in the interests of their state rather than dance to the tune of Washington or Brussels.

“I have absolutely no doubt about it. We will restore our ties with both Lithuania and Poland. The main principle is that neighbors should not be at odds with each other.

I always say that neighbors are given to us by God, we cannot pick our neighbors,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “Disagreements happen, but they are all temporal. The times will come when we will live together as we always did, including the Soviet times…” The head of state emphasized that Belarus was not to blame for the current relations between the countries, although Lithuania, for example, had voiced various claims and complaints, including with regard to the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

“I told them then that we were going to build this plant no matter what. Neither Americans, nor Europeans, no one will prevent us from building it. We decide what to do on our land.