Minsk - Poland's policy was among the reasons why Belarus did not take part in the summit of the Eastern Partnership organization in Warsaw, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.
Belarus will not yield to provocations by Polish politicians, he said.
"We aren’t going to yield to Poland’s provocations, these are our neighbors. We don’t want to fight with them. But it is the Poles who are the pace-setters in this [in the EU attitude toward Belarus]," Lukashenko said at a press conference for Russian journalists on Friday.
"Some great figures [in Poland] are dreaming that the border is passing near Minsk," Lukashenko said. "But politicians come and go, and this all will go, too," he said.
Lukashenko said he did not receive an invitation to the Eastern Partnership summit in Warsaw, while the heads of other states were invited. "It is another matter if I’d gone there or not, but they were obliged to invite the president where the presidents of other countries participate," he said.
"They got the shivers: What will Lukashenko say when he comes? What are the Poles going to hear from him?" he added.
After Belarus lowered the level of its participation in the summit, the head of the Belarusian diplomatic mission in Poland was restricted in participating in the summit events. After that, Belarus decided not to take part in the summit at all, he said.
A resolution on Belarus, which was offered for signing at the Eastern Partnership summit, was not supported by the heads of other states, and Georgia and Azerbaijan opposed this document more actively than others, Lukashenko said. "This was quite a blow to them [Poland]," he said.
