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Belorusskiy Partizan, Belarus
June 21 2013
Belarus denies president's unflattering statement on Azeri rebel region
Lukashenka in the middle of a scandal again: the Foreign Ministry has to lie
In an interview to the [Russian-language website] "Izvestiya v
Ukraine" [Belarusian President Alyaksandr] Lukashenka has said many
interesting things, including his opinion about the situation in
Nagornyy Karabakh [Azerbaijan's breakaway region that went under
Armenian control in the war in 1990s], when he said that there was no
normal life there, which the Armenian authorities did not like at all.
The situation looked awkward as the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, while
giving excuses for Lukashenka, stated that Lukashenka did not give any
interview to Isvestiya v Ukraine. Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister
Shavarsh Kocharyan told the Novosti-Armenia [news] agency about it.
The talk is about Lukashenka's words about the situation in Nagornyy
Karabakh: "What is Nagornyy Karabakh, how do people live there and
where do they work? There is no normal life there," Lukashenka said,
when answering a journalist's question about how Belarus would assist
in resolving conflicts in former hot spots during its CIS presidency.
Armenia, where Lukashenka has just been on an official visit ahead of
his Ukrainian trip, reacted quickly. The Armenian Foreign Ministry
sent the Belarusian Foreign Ministry a note where it said that
Lukashenka's statement about Nagornyy Karabakh as an "unacceptable
wording".
The reply of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry satisfied Yerevan, but
other issues were raised in connection to this reply.
Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said that
"according to the information received from the Belarusian Foreign
Ministry, Lukashenka did not make any statements with such wording.
Moreover, during the official visit to Ukraine, Lukashenka did not
give any interview to the Isvestiya v Ukraine publication".
Judging by this, it looks like a serious Ukrainian publication
published an interview that actually had not taken place.
Interestingly, it was in that interview that Lukashenka spoke about
his elder son's presidential ambitions.
[Translated from Russian]
June 21 2013
Belarus denies president's unflattering statement on Azeri rebel region
Lukashenka in the middle of a scandal again: the Foreign Ministry has to lie
In an interview to the [Russian-language website] "Izvestiya v
Ukraine" [Belarusian President Alyaksandr] Lukashenka has said many
interesting things, including his opinion about the situation in
Nagornyy Karabakh [Azerbaijan's breakaway region that went under
Armenian control in the war in 1990s], when he said that there was no
normal life there, which the Armenian authorities did not like at all.
The situation looked awkward as the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, while
giving excuses for Lukashenka, stated that Lukashenka did not give any
interview to Isvestiya v Ukraine. Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister
Shavarsh Kocharyan told the Novosti-Armenia [news] agency about it.
The talk is about Lukashenka's words about the situation in Nagornyy
Karabakh: "What is Nagornyy Karabakh, how do people live there and
where do they work? There is no normal life there," Lukashenka said,
when answering a journalist's question about how Belarus would assist
in resolving conflicts in former hot spots during its CIS presidency.
Armenia, where Lukashenka has just been on an official visit ahead of
his Ukrainian trip, reacted quickly. The Armenian Foreign Ministry
sent the Belarusian Foreign Ministry a note where it said that
Lukashenka's statement about Nagornyy Karabakh as an "unacceptable
wording".
The reply of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry satisfied Yerevan, but
other issues were raised in connection to this reply.
Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said that
"according to the information received from the Belarusian Foreign
Ministry, Lukashenka did not make any statements with such wording.
Moreover, during the official visit to Ukraine, Lukashenka did not
give any interview to the Isvestiya v Ukraine publication".
Judging by this, it looks like a serious Ukrainian publication
published an interview that actually had not taken place.
Interestingly, it was in that interview that Lukashenka spoke about
his elder son's presidential ambitions.
[Translated from Russian]