NUCLEAR POWER IN BELARUS AND WORLDWIDE
BOBRUISK, 21 April (BelTA) – Belarus has never tried to hide and is not going to hide the coronavirus situation. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement in a conversation with workers of the Bobruisk-based garment factory Slavyanka on 21 April, BelTA has learned.
People asked the head of state what sources of information they should trust in conditions of the incessant flow of all kinds of information from various sources because citizens are worried about the situation in Belarus and would like to know the truth.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “You should trust those, who can be made responsible for their words. Do you think some unsavory channels that hide in Moscow and mouth off Belarus carry any responsibility? They don't. They think we can't make them answerable. But we will if necessary. It is just not what we need today. We don't shut down anyone after all. Feel free to read and make conclusions. And trust those, who can be made answerable.”
“And do we want to catch up with gutter press? We never will catch up with them. I am talking about lots of money. This is why you know state television and the point of view of the state. You probably evaluate various mass media and can see who you can trust and who you cannot. Those who carry responsibility and those who don't. This is why it is up to you to choose. But honestly we've never lied to you and don't lie now. In a fit of temper I once said: ‘Why would I want to hide it? Did I give birth to this psychosis or the coronavirus? I didn't. Did it originate in Belarus? It didn't. We were infected with it.' It means that the world is so globalized and so interconnected that there is no place to hide anywhere today,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
The head of state reminded that experts of the World Health Organization had been invited to visit Belarus in order to dispel all doubts and mistrust in official information. “They don't love us. It is an international organization that always has enough politics. They went everywhere. They even went to hospital wards, which I didn't expect. They gave us a lot of advice and went as far as to suggest quarantine, possibly a curfew. As professionals they say that the authorities don't lie. Everything is the way it is said,” Aleksandr Lukashenko pointed out.
