Natalya Eismont. Image credit: The First News TV channel
MINSK, 18 September (BelTA) – The Belarus president’s Press Secretary Natalya Eismont has commented on yet another method that the self-exiled opposition has invented in an attempt to fight the current government. The official made the statements on the air of the First News TV channel, BelTA has learned.
During a patriotic forum held on 17 September Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko mentioned plans to attempt to launch an international investigation into his actions. “It is absolutely precise information that we possess. Our self-exiled opposition has found no better way of fighting the current government than trying to launch an investigation within the framework of the International Criminal Court,” the press secretary stated. “They encourage the West, they are simply on their knees and beg the West to bring the Belarus president to justice. Similarly to the Russian leader. They desperately want it. We know it.”
Natalya Eismont reminded that the situation with allegedly kidnapped children from the Donbass area had been previously mentioned as the reason. As a matter of fact, the kids enjoyed assistance and recreation in Belarus. And naturally they went back home afterwards.
“They have new ideas now. They allege that the self-exiled opposition has been kicked out from Belarus to the West. But the president has said more than once that nobody has forced anyone out of the country. We’ve even set up a commission to welcome the people back. It is headed by the prosecutor general. We invite them to return. People are coming back. If you have not violated an article of the Criminal Code, prove it and come back. Those, who don’t want to do it, have this choice,” the press secretary noted.
She also pointed out that Aleksandr Lukashenko had signed several decrees to pardon people. As a result, those, who have repented and have committed errors, have been given a chance of going back to normal lives.
“We would like to also recall cases when people fled the country in an emergency together with their families and kids. The president even helped some of them,” Natalya Eismont noted.
She also remarked that the self-exiled opposition is trying to impress someone with figures by claiming that allegedly 300,000 people have left Belarus. “According to their recent estimates, the number of people, who left the country, stood at 1 million. Then it went down to 700,000. It is 300,000 now. We still cannot comprehend how many people have left the country, honestly speaking,” the press secretary said.
This bit of information and other pieces of up-to-date and operational data revealed by Aleksandr Lukashenko the day before are intended not only for the citizens, who live in Belarus. “It is important for Belarusians to know it. But to an even greater degree this information was supposed to reach our foreign partners and our fugitives, who just cannot calm down,” Natalya Eismont remarked.
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