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Belarus is ready to more actively participate in the Ukrainian settlement, but is not imposing itself as a peacekeeper, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.

“Seeing how slowly this process, this bad process is going, how the achieved Minsk Agreements are not fulfilled, I said frankly, if the two presidents, of Russia and Ukraine, Putin and Poroshenko, reach an agreement and see greater Belarus’s role there, we are ready to play this role. But we will never impose ourselves as a peacekeeper, as a mediator. We don’t need it, it doesn’t make us look good,” Lukashenko was quoted by the BelTA state news agency as saying in an interview with Turkey’s Anadolu news agency.