Belarus does not want to have to choose between the European Union and Russia, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday during the first visit by an EU minister to Minsk since Brussels lifted sanctions against the country last month.
Lukashenko is a five-term president whose country was described in 2005 by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as “Europe’s last dictatorship”. He has a difficult balancing act trying to improve relations with the EU while keeping the country’s closest ally and financial backer Russia onside.
“If the partners which we’re in dialogue with try to insist that we have to choose between …read more
Source: Voice of America