MINSK, 18 July (BelTA) - Poland and Lithuania do not like the policy pursued by our president and our government, Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov said on the air of the ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned.
“They thought (and continue to think) that some other government, some other president will be more amenable to Poland’s and Lithuania’s interests. What these interests are? Of course, Poland wants to be more active in the western regions of Belarus, just like in Ukraine. Many in Poland still consider it their ‘eastern regions’. Of course, they want to play the leading economic role in our country. They want the EU to pursue economic expansion through Poland, which means bigger money and resources. The most important thing for Lithuania is to kill any rudiments of identification of its southern regions with the Belarusian national idea called ‘litvinism’ by the Belarusian self-exiled opposition,” Maksim Ryzhenkov noted.
Poland and Lithuania planned to realize their plans with the help of the Belarusian self-exiled opposition. However, they failed to realize these plans. Today the Belarusian self-exiled opposition became a burden for Poland and Lithuania, the minister emphasized.
“Why to spend money on people if their work does not lead to anything good in relations between countries? We all realize that they will not come anywhere, they will not sit anywhere and they will not pay back to these countries.They will still have to sit down and negotiate with the current authorities and with President Aleksandr Lukashenko. Therefore, today the Belarusian self-exiled opposition is becoming a suitcase without a handle and will be discarded soon,” Maksim Ryzhenkov is convinced
