MINSK, 5 March (BelTA) - We need to move towards peace instead of looking for those responsible for the Ukrainian conflict, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in an interview with U.S. blogger Mario Nawfal, BelTA has learned.
“Now all of us, especially you, the media, are busy searching for the reasons for this conflict and those to blame for it. My position is different. We will assign the blame later. No one will escape responsibility. We will come to grips with the reasons. This is not on the agenda right now,” the head of state said.
In this regard, Aleksandr Lukashenko commended the position of the current U.S. administration: “This administration gave a fresh momentum to efforts to end the war. I spoke about this back when the negotiations were underway here, when the Minsk agreements were in the works.”
The president recalled that after the conflict started in 2014 he kept saying that it would be impossible to achieve peace without the United States and that everything would depend on the position of the USA and its closest allies. “So it happened. Would the conflict in Ukraine have broken out if the USA, England and other Western countries had not been pushing to it by supplying Ukraine with weapons? No, it would not! Someone needed this war. It was only with Donald Trump coming to power that the peace process started in earnest. He openly said what he could do and what would happen if the war were not stopped. He said the right thing,” the Belarusian leader stated.
“This is what is important today, not searching for those responsible. We do not need another two years looking for those guilty while another million people die on both sides. It is not what we need. We need to stop the conflict. We need all parties to stop shooting at each other in the first place. After all, the kin folk is shooting at each other there. These are kin nations. Ukrainians and Russians are kin people,” Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked.
“This must be stopped. We and the USA are in the same camp here. We have to do everything to stop it,” the president added.
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