Position, to which NATO’s heads keep in the issue of giving visas to the official Belarusian delegation to the summit of the Council of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership demonstrates “bias” in the European affairs and is also “an interference into the interior affairs of Belarus”, “Mediafact” quotes Belarusian Foreign Minister Mikhail Khvostov as saying on Thursday in Minsk.

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Alexander Lukashenko is unlikely to engage in the Prague summit of NATO, for the Czech authorities will probably deny him an entry visa, said on Czech radio the head of the Czech Foreign Ministry Kiril Svoboda.

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According to the Czech news agency CzTK, Alexander Lukashenko and his encirclement may get blacklisted among those individuals, who will be denied visas by the EU countries. These very days the EU ruling bodies will prepare a concomitant document, which will be proposed for approval early next week to the EU Foreign Ministers. As you know, yesterday the press-secretary of the Czech president Ladislav Spacek said that Vatslav Havel doesn’t plan to meet with Alexander Lukashenko, even if he manages to obtain Czech visa. The resolution in question could simplify the solution of the dilemma, faced now by Prague – whether or not to issue entry visa to Alexander Lukashenko for his coming to NATO.

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NATO officials believe that the presidents of Belarus and Ukraine may come to the NATO’s summit in Prague, but they must not count on a warm welcome, reports RIA “Novosti” correspondent.

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The head of Belarus considers the policy of pressuring him through gas blockade to be “short-sighted”. He said this on Wednesday after the opening of the gas pipe in the Luninets town of the Brest region.

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Alexander Lukashenko considers the decision of the Polish government not to let Russian Chechens to its territory to be a politically motivated decision. In an interview to the press on Wednesday Lukashenko said that the Belarusian side had been aware of the fact that “a month ago the so-called “democratic leadership” of Poland ruled to prevent the incomers from the Kavkaz region from penetrating deep into its territory”. Lukashenko was angered by the silence of the Russian embassy and consulate, which don’t care at all about the destiny of their citizens.

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Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko is dissatisfied by the agreements, reached by Russia and EU on the Kaliningrad problem, reports RIA “Novosti”.

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Court hearings on the case of the former head of the Belarusian railroad Viktor Rakhmanko will open on November 14 in the country’s Supreme court. BELTA was told in the court’s press-service, that Viktor Rakhmanko is charged with committing 15 crimes. The former director of the Belarusian railroad is accused, among other things, of bribery.

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