Greetings to Moscow: Lukashenko called the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia unacceptable
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called the declaration of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia “unacceptable.”
Lukashenko discussed these states during a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I want to thank you and your people for your principled support of our territorial integrity and sovereignty. The Georgian people will never forget this,” Bakhtadze rejoiced.
According to the official website of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko replied that such a policy is the principled position of Belarus towards any country.
“This can happen to any state, and it is unacceptable,” he emphasized.
In addition, the Belarusian leader promised the Prime Minister of Georgia that Minsk will continue to persistently develop relations with Tbilisi.
Let us recall that in 2008 Lukashenko refused to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia only because of problems with the European Union. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev then stated that his Belarusian colleague solemnly promised him to do this.
“I told him: it’s not a problem for Belarus to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and it’s not a problem today. But I listed to him the problems that Belarus would have in this regard along the lines of Belarus-EU, Belarus-USA, Belarus-CIS, and so on.
Russia turned out to be unable or unwilling to level out and eliminate the consequences that should have arisen for Belarus. If Russia had taken steps towards it, the situation would probably have been different,” Lukashenko said then.
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