Foreign Ministry of Belarus: Syamashka and Martynau to go to summit in Prague (Photo)

An official delegation which is to go to the Eastern Partnership summit in Prague on May 7 has been formed.

The delegation is to include the first deputy Premier Uladzimir Syamashka and Belarusian Foreign Minister Syarhei Martynau.

It has been stated by Maryja Vanshyna, the deputy head of the information department of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, the news agency BelaPAN reports.

“As you know, invitation to the summit of the Eastern Partnership initiative was passed by the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, which is presiding in the EU now, to the president of the Republic of Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka personally. As it had been planned, the head of the state adopted a decision on the makeup of the delegation at the summit. As long as the Eastern Partnership issues are entirely practical and encompass socially and economically significant lines of cooperation (trade, energetic, transport, migration and so on), they are recognized as the matters to come under cognizance of the government. And consequently the official Belarusian delegation has included the first deputy Premier Uladzimir Syamashka Foreign Minister Syarhei Syamashka,” Maryja Vanshyna said.

The representative of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus noted that “we are proceeding from a necessity of equal and non-discriminatory participation in the Eastern Partnership program of the all six countries of the region. Implementing of the initiative should serve to strengthening of the unity of the European continent without forming new dividing lines and spheres of influence”.

As we have informed, the president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus opposed the visit of the Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka to the summit. He stated that he won’t receive him in his residence and won’t shake hands with him.

The Chairperson of the Standing Czech Senate Commission on Assistance to Worldwide Democracy Vlastimil Sehnal has come out against the visit of the Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka to Prague categorically. “We simply shouldn’t allow him to leave the plane,” the politician noted.

In her turn, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy noted that the Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg had invited to the summit not A. Lukashenka personally, but Belarus.