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Minsk - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that he may soon meet with his counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan and possibly Ukraine to discuss the situation in the region.

“In the near future, we, the presidents of Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine (if Ukraine agrees to it, although it is not opposed to such ideas), plan to hold a series of meetings to discuss what is happening in our region today in detail,” Lukashenko said at a meeting with the leaders of the Russian and Ukrainian Communist Parties, Gennady Zyuganov and Petro Symonenko, in Minsk on Friday, Aug. 8.

The meeting was broadcast live on Belarusian state-run television stations.

“Who could have thought that our three states, Slavic states, the people who are closest to each other would get into such a mess in the south of our country,” he said.

“It is clear what the Americans and Europeans want. From the very beginning I said that we should be vigilant because they would try to drag us into this slaughter like into a funnel in order to create not only a hotbed of tensions, which is already happening today, but to trigger a new war. And it will be a very dangerous war,” the president said.

“But no one paid any attention to my words at that time. And look what is happening today,” he said.

When addressing Zyuganov and Symonenko, the Belarusian president said he would like to hear alternative views both from Moscow and Kyiv concerning the current situation.