Lukashenka Could Be Banned From Georgia :: Charter'97 :: News

Chairman of the International Relations Committee in the parliament of Georgia, Kote Gabashvili, has offered the authorities of the country to “take personal decision never to issue entering visa for Alyaksandr Lukashenka personally”. This statement has been made by him, commenting on the decision by Lukashenka to impose visa requirements for Georgians, ITAR-TASS informs. “Taking into consideration that Lukashenka himself has no right to enter the territory of the EU and USA, he is not given visa there, he was to get hurt and Georgia, a beacon of democracy, according to president Bush, was the first to occur to him,” Gabashvili said.

“Lukashenka is guided not by state interests, but by his own. It is a typical decision for an authoritarian regime and an authoritarian leader, who believes that there is some danger of colour revolutions from Georgia, from Georgian politicians, from people who could come and say the truth, which is concealed from the Belarusian citizens by their government. For fear of that Lukashenka has made such a move,” told Kote Gabashvili in his interview to Radio Svaboda.

Yesterday Lukashenka imposed visa requirements for Georgians, explaining it by a sharp increase in “Georgian criminal elements” who were using Belarus “as a channel to infiltrate Russia.”

FM and Georgian president had not reacted to this decision of Lukashenka yet.