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MINSK, 16 February (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made a few comments about the possible modernization of the USA’s Monroe Doctrine as he met with State Secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Sergey Glazyev, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “As for the United States of America. The Monroe Doctrine… Well, Sergey Yuryevich [Glazyev], you and I are experienced people. When was it already?! Well, it can be modernized somehow. Well, if we have to live in the 19th or 18th century, then we definitely have to go to war against Europe tomorrow. But we don’t intend to do it. The United States of America doesn’t either.”
“Well, we understand their concerns regarding Greenland. Especially since they could have made a good investment in Greenland. But doing it this way – what did it lead to? Rejection. Even inside the United States of America the majority of the population says: ‘No, we don’t want this.’ Although people in the USA are heroic. You know how this nation was formed and so on. It wasn’t ordinary people who went there from Europe. Those people were ready to fight. They said: ‘No, this is not the way to do it’. A clash with Europe, let alone Denmark, and so on. I see that Donald has stepped back,” the president said.
The Monroe Doctrine is a collection of foreign policy principles built around the perception that the Western hemisphere is a sphere of exclusive interests of the United States of America. The doctrine was formulated first in December 1823 by the USA’s fifth president James Monroe. The doctrine’s interpretation has been changed and updated many times since then. Donald Trump’s administration has been recently trying to reintroduce the Monroe Doctrine into the public space.
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