Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko called Lithuania’s border closure a crazy scam. He stated this at the III Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security, BELTA reports.
“The conference was awaited not only by us, the participants, but also by our opponents, who are closely watching Minsk today. Not everyone had to get to Minsk today. This is precisely the goal that some of our neighbors pursued when they pulled off this crazy scam of closing the border. And they came up with an absurd reason. Balloons. Even for such a small country as Lithuania, this is small,” said the head of state.
“I declare with responsibility that there is no talk of any extraordinary smuggling. But this says a lot about the political potential of our conference, since they are trying to block it,” added Alexander Lukashenko.
The head of state said that “the greatest” are already demanding from the Belarusian side apologies. “If we are guilty, we must always apologize. And if we are convinced that we are guilty (they are now trying to convince us of this), we are ready to discuss it publicly, we will apologize. That’s for sure. But if some balloons with cigarettes or something else are flying there, I believe this issue should be resolved there. They didn’t just fly off to God knows where. Someone is receiving them there, someone is interested in it. We must find in to put an end to such things,” said the Belarusian leader.