MINSK, 27 September (BelTA) - Belarus is a small piece of land, but it is much more to this phase than just the definition of the country’s size, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the Q&A session titled “Open Microphone with the President” with students of engineering and technical universities of Minsk on 27 September, BelTA has learned.
“I often say that Belarus is a small piece of land. This is, however, not just about the size of our Belarus. It is about the fact that the world is huge, but there's nowhere where we belong but here. Believe my experience. But if we look from the point of view of geopolitical interests of other countries, we will see an absolutely different picture,” the president said.
In his words, Belarus is six times as big as Belgium, five times as big as the Netherlands, more than twice as big as Austria or the Czech Republic. “We can host the peoples of the Baltic states and Moldova on our territory. We can accommodate, clothe and feed them,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “We have forests and wetlands - the lungs of Europe, a source of oxygen. We have well-cultivated fields, water, resources that will be worth their weight in gold in the future, because not every European country has such reserves and not everyone takes proper care of them as we do.”
According to the head of state, Germany plundered the Belarusian territory during the First World War, and it was Poland after Belarus was partitioned in 1921. “They brazenly pillaged our peat, timber and food. Meanwhile, Belarusians were starving,” he added.
“But the main thing is that we are blocking the passage towards Russia that is unprecedentedly and, as the West thinks, unjustly rich in resources. That is the reason for the political attacks and sanctions by the collective West against Russians and me,” the president said.
He said that every 100 years history repeats itself, but always at a higher level. “This is the essence of dialectical development and so on,” the head of state added.
“I often say that Belarus is a small piece of land. This is, however, not just about the size of our Belarus. It is about the fact that the world is huge, but there's nowhere where we belong but here. Believe my experience. But if we look from the point of view of geopolitical interests of other countries, we will see an absolutely different picture,” the president said.
In his words, Belarus is six times as big as Belgium, five times as big as the Netherlands, more than twice as big as Austria or the Czech Republic. “We can host the peoples of the Baltic states and Moldova on our territory. We can accommodate, clothe and feed them,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “We have forests and wetlands - the lungs of Europe, a source of oxygen. We have well-cultivated fields, water, resources that will be worth their weight in gold in the future, because not every European country has such reserves and not everyone takes proper care of them as we do.”
According to the head of state, Germany plundered the Belarusian territory during the First World War, and it was Poland after Belarus was partitioned in 1921. “They brazenly pillaged our peat, timber and food. Meanwhile, Belarusians were starving,” he added.
“But the main thing is that we are blocking the passage towards Russia that is unprecedentedly and, as the West thinks, unjustly rich in resources. That is the reason for the political attacks and sanctions by the collective West against Russians and me,” the president said.
Resources are the number one issue, he said. It has always been so. “Today the situation is such that the West possesses the highest technologies in certain areas, which neither Russia nor Belarus possesses. But they need resources to produce finished products: drones, AI-based goods, and so on. They need resources and sources of rare earth metals. Where are they concentrated? First of all, in the Russian Federation. It has a huge territory and a disproportionately low population density. The technological West, which has always been ahead of us, has always looked eastward, hungrily eyeing this treasure trove of resources. This is what is happening now,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
He said that every 100 years history repeats itself, but always at a higher level. “This is the essence of dialectical development and so on,” the head of state added.
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