MINSK, 8 January (BelTA) - The Americans could have achieved their goals in Venezuela without capturing the president of that country, Nicolás Maduro, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during the awards ceremony in Minsk on 8 January, BelTA has learned
“The only thing I am grateful to Donald [U.S. President Donald Trump] for talking openly about oil: ‘We need oil’. It pains me to talk about this, as I was, to some extent, drawn into this situation from the very beginning. I even informed the American that the Venezuelans were ready to cooperate with them. Don't make these foolish mistakes. It will be very difficult to get out of them. Very difficult to get out. We will see what their justice is. I would say, he’s got decent judges and lawyers,” the head of state noted.
“I relayed all the messages from Nicolás Maduro. You saw my meeting with the Ambassador of Venezuela to the Russian Federation. He is Maduro's supporter, his comrade-in-arms. They have always worked together. I also know him well. He was a military man under Chávez [former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez].Everything the USA wanted to achieve there could have been done without the capture,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
“Yet they needed to put their ‘heroism’ on display. On whom did they decide to demonstrate it? On a defenseless man? They killed all the people guarding him. They wounded his wife and the man, captured him, and took him to the USA. That’s ‘great heroism’ indeed,” the president added.
“I relayed all the messages from Nicolás Maduro. You saw my meeting with the Ambassador of Venezuela to the Russian Federation. He is Maduro's supporter, his comrade-in-arms. They have always worked together. I also know him well. He was a military man under Chávez [former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez].Everything the USA wanted to achieve there could have been done without the capture,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
“Yet they needed to put their ‘heroism’ on display. On whom did they decide to demonstrate it? On a defenseless man? They killed all the people guarding him. They wounded his wife and the man, captured him, and took him to the USA. That’s ‘great heroism’ indeed,” the president added.
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