MINSK, 29 January (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko responded to speculations about the “secret” inauguration and the provocations which were prepared before the ceremony as he met with students on 29 January, BelTA informs.
The president recalled that in the period of the election campaign he warned several times about possible provocations aimed at destabilizing the situation in the country. “The inauguration should have been held in a different way! We did not erect three-meter-high fences, like Americans did (thanks to them for the demonstration how to do it properly). What would have you done in my place?” the head of state wondered. “Previously, I had a meeting with the chairman of the State Control Committee, he brought some documents to me: they wanted to organize provocations with MPs. They knew: there will be inauguration, buses with MPs… They wanted to throw petrol bombs inside the buses through broken windows. No one would have paid any attention to the inaugurations. All of you would have been discussing those burned buses with MPs. What about the consequences? What should have I done? I did what I could.”
