MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko rebuked some news outlets for fuelling tensions in the world as he delivered the State of the Nation Address on 24 April, BelTA has learned.
The head of state said he keeps track of media outlets, including Russian ones. He criticized the behavior of some so-called “talking heads”. “They are rolling up their sleeves, ready to take machine guns and grenade launchers to fight against the whole world,” Alexander Lukashenko remarked.
“Everyone is adding fuel to the fire today. We have blamed the Americans for this, but now we are doing the same thing,” the president stated.
He warned that warmongers would be the first to suffer from their own actions. “The situation in the society (not only ours) is as follows: we will instigate the war now, and someone will put out the fire. No, this is not true. Those who start the fire will be the first to get caught in the middle of it together with their families,” Alexander Lukashenko emphasized.
This is why people should think a thousand times before whipping up hysteria in the society and destabilizing the situation, the president added. He called not to act like the talking heads he had mentioned earlier on. “We are not like them,” Alexander Lukashenko underlined. The Belarusian people, he said, had gone through the dark years of war, several times every century. He cited World War II, World War I, and the Patriotic War of 1812 as examples of conflicts where the Belarusians suffered most. “We still cannot make sense out of history. What the Belarusian People's Republic was like and where our nationalists or integrators were moving towards. The country was divided. An attempt to unite it was made several years later. Maps in some countries are still drawn with a border near Minsk,” the president noted.
The people of Belarus do not want those events to happen again, the head of state stressed. “We should only come up with initiatives for peace. The whole world should see that we are peace-loving people who have had enough of this grief. We have reached the limits of revolutions and wars. We do not need more of them,” Alexander Lukashenko summarized.
