MOSCOW, 10 November (BelTA) – Lithuania and Poland enjoy their own toughness in the situation with migrants. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov made the statement after an annual meeting of the Russian-Belarusian ministerial collegium in Moscow on 10 November, BelTA has learned.
The official said: “Neither Poles, nor Lithuanians, nor anyone else have contacted us with requests for possible mediation or some other kind of participation in these discussions. In my opinion, they contact no one at all. Instead they simply enjoy their toughness by making such thunderous statements, by accusing Belarus as well as Russia as a country that stands behind these events in Belarus. I believe it is a manifestation of the feeling of their own grandeur and their own impunity in any matter.”
“The fact that Belarus has repeatedly suggested arranging consultations to discuss this situation at the border, to make arrangements, and to resolve these matters on the basis of international humanitarian law is not mentioned in public rhetoric in any way,” Sergey Lavrov pointed out. “President Lukashenko's proposal to start consultations immediately after the Ryanair flight incident was turned down in the same manner. Nobody heard it.”
Sergey Lavrov stressed that there is no other way to resolve the problem but to negotiate with Belarus. “I think there is no other way out but to talk and determine what really happened on the basis of real facts. Our European partners should divert their attention to themselves. There is something to look at there,” he said.
