MINSK, 1 September (BelTA) – The irresponsible policy of European bureaucrats is a direct threat to the future of Europe itself, BelTA learned from a statement of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs watched with interest the attempts to stage a show around Ms. von der Leyen’s visit to the EU countries bordering Belarus. As we feared, this trip indeed turned out to be a waste of time in terms of any progress towards improving the situation on the border of Belarus with the European Union member states,” the foreign ministry noted.
“Statements about ‘Belarusian border guards keeping watch with long guns’ made just yesterday in Poland, have once again clearly demonstrated the wild imagination of European officials,” the document states. “Instead of discussing real issues and jointly seeking long-term solutions, Brussels prefers to invent new horror stories and declare as ‘frontline’ territories where, fortunately, no hostilities have been or are taking place.”
The Belarusian MFA emphasized: “We are ready to repeat once again: Belarus is not at war with anyone and does not intend to go to war. We are not the ones pursuing an aggressive and frankly militaristic policy. We are not the ones constantly increasing military spending. We are not the ones persistently portraying our neighbor as an enemy. Billions of euros from European taxpayers’ money are being spent not on strengthening peace and security in our region, but on fueling conflict and escalating tensions. While the East and even the West on the other side of the Atlantic are taking steps to restore peace, Brussels, hiding behind slogans of ‘shared responsibility’ and ‘protecting the democratic peace,’ is in fact doing everything to escalate and expand the scale of the conflict in our region.”
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry is convinced: “Such a thoughtless and, in fact, highly irresponsible policy of European bureaucrats is a direct threat to the future of Europe itself.”
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