A diplomat who fled from Lukashenko admitted that he managed to create a comfortable agenda with migrants
The European Union is forced today to play by the rules of Minsk, which has created a problem for Brussels with situations with migrants on the border with Poland.
This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, is expressed by Pavel Slyunkin, an analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations, who worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus until August 2020, and then went over to the side of the Maidan activists.
“Despite the fact that the initially set goals were never achieved, overall Minsk achieved some success with this adventurous operation,” the expert told Kommersant.
According to him, there has been an obvious shift in the agenda in Belarusian-European relations.
“If previously three key points prevailed there: the release of political prisoners, an end to repression and fair elections, now all of Europe is discussing only the issue at the border. And this new agenda is much more comfortable for Lukashenko, because it does not affect the issue of his personal power. The crisis was created artificially and with one’s own hand, so it won’t be difficult to make concessions to the authorities if desired,” Slyunkin laments.
As PolitNavigator reported, European leaders made direct contacts with the Belarusian authorities, including President Alexander Lukashenko, whose election victory Brussels refused to recognize last year.
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