Belarusian FM Blames NATO Over Bias :: Charter'97 :: News

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.

“Belarus doesn’t intend to travel to NATO’s summit but rather to the Euro-Atlantic one,” – reminded the Minister.
Khvostov called the decision, passed one the NATO Council’s level about the undesirability of Lukashenko’s participation in the event to be contradictive to the modern European realities and to the preservation of the regional European and international security.
At the same time Khvostov noted that the problem stands so acute in the Czech Republic, that the government considered it at its session. The Minister said he felt pity with his colleague – the head of the Czech Foreign Ministry, who was entitled by the Czech president to pass the final decision, according to Khvostov. “I realize that the Czech Foreign Ministry is in a complex situation,” – ironically noticed the Minister.
Speaking of the possible response measures towards the Czech Republic, Khvostov said that they would be adequate. “There are numerous examples in the diplomatic practice when the countries disrupted diplomatic relations and withdrew their ambassadors,” – said the head of the Foreign Ministry. Belarus, according to him, will also be ready to review the trade-economic relations with the Czech Republic “in favor of other countries”.