Bundestag deputy: Lukashenka shouldn’t be allowed to carry out “swing of the pendulum” policy

European politicians believe that in issues of Europe’s cooperation with current regime no flirting with Belarusian authorities should take place.

It has been stated by a member of Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag Marieluise Beck, who took part in 12th Minsk Forum, “Zavtra tvoej strany” informs.

According to the German deputy Marieluise Beck, self-determination of countries which have become independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union is a very important issue today. It concerns Belarus as well.

The problem is, that Russia which is nostalgic about the great empire, is trying to prevent post-Soviet countries pursuing independent policy. According to Marieluise Beck, the turnaround in Belarusian policy started when Russia refused to sell energy products at its home prices, but the question is what Belarus wants: to preserve the preceding command and administration system in the economy, the old system of government, or transformation with the aim to restore the rule of law state, joining European and human values area.

“Eastern Partnership should be helped to overcome the viewpoint if Eastern participants of the program including Belarus that we are not just providing money inflow, finances of the International Monetary Fund, but are making contribution in opening market, privatization,” the parliamentarian believes. “Belarus should understand that issues of the cooperation prospects and European Partnership include such notions are human rights, freedom of the press, a right for free development of political parties and civil society institutions, promotion of the small and medium business, abandonment of government management of the economy”.

Otherwise according to the deputy of the German parliament, the Eastern Partnership would remain just a façade, a platform for purely economic cooperation, which does not always consider values’ notions.

“What contradicts interests of Europeans and the Belarusian society is to allow Lukashenka to continue the policy of pendulum, when in any case he can start threats to one of the sides by a turnaround in a different direction, to turn to the East or to the West depending on up-to-the-minute reactions. Otherwise in ten years we would have to say that all our intentions and our policy towards Belarus had been wrong,” underlines Marieluise Beck.

She believes that political mistakes once make with Poland shouldn’t be repeated. Then Western democracies chose as a guiding landmark the position of the authoritarian official Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, and not of the Solidarity trade union.