Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said regarding the settlement of the conflict in Donbas that his country will do what the presidents of Ukraine and Russia ask, because they are the two parties most involved in this conflict.
“I want to explain briefly my position regarding the conflicts that are taking place in Ukraine. It has not changed at all. You should understand, I never set a goal to put the cart before the horse… I have done and will do only that which I will be asked by the two presidents. I was instructed by Petro Oleksiyovych (Poroshenko) to host meetings in Minsk. This was not my initiative, I was told how to do it and I did it,” Lukashenko said during a joint statement with Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on Friday.
According to the president of Belarus, Poroshenko asked him to facilitate the activities of the trilateral contact group and this was also done.
“This will continue. We, Belarusians, will do everything the two presidents, who are more than anyone else involved in this conflict, ask me. We do not expect any praise for that,” Lukashenko said.
