MINSK, 12 April (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko touched upon the story with Angelika Melnikova’s disappearance in Poland as he spoke to the media on 12 April, BelTA has learned.
“They have lost this speaker [in Poland]. They cannot find her! Then find her. Get yourselves busy with something at least,” the president said. “However, Poland is only concerned about [Andrei] Pochobut and some other matter. ‘In order to talk to us, the Belarusians must do this or that’, they say. I say: ‘Tell them to get lost’. We do not owe anybody anything. If you want, let's sit down and talk.”
According to the head of state, at one point Belarus was ready to extradite Andrei Pochobut, who was convicted in Belarus, to Poland, but the Polish side refused. “Pochobut said: ‘I'm not going there’. We have everything on record. They accuse us of persecutions. We persecute no one,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
He noted that when the head of the unregistered Union of Poles of Belarus Anzhelika Borys spoke in favor of dialogue between Belarus and Poland, she was immediately subjected to harassment. “This is the policy they pursue: the policy of escalation and aggravation,” the Belarusian leader said.
According to the head of state, whoever is elected to the post of the president in Poland will not change anything. “The president cannot change anything. He does not have any powers there. He will make some noise in the media,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “But I wish it was a sane, normal person. Not pro-Russian, or pro-Belarusian. Just pro-Polish. Who will act in the interests of Poles. This is what we want. Should they be willing, we will work with them.”
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