MINSK, 8 December (BelTA) – No political, economic or military sanctions against Belarus will be effective, member of the Standing Commission on Budget and Finance of the House of Representatives Sergei Stelmashok told reporters, BelTA has learned.
“Brussels and Washington should know that no political, economic, and even more so military sanctions will have any effect on us. We are Slavic people raised in Christian traditions. The lament and tears of our children, old people and women tortured during the Great Patriotic War still echo in our hearts. Europeans, the losers in that war, must remember that the Soviet flag was raised over the Reichstag, and not the flag of the Hitlerite coalition over the Kremlin,” the MP said.
Sergei Stelmashok emphasized that economic sanctions serve as an incentive to ramp up export. “By now, we have increased the export of our industrial and agricultural products, diverted it from Western Europe to the Middle East and China and we are working to step up the export to Africa and South America,” the MP said.
