The meeting took place on the sidelines of the CIS Heads of Government Council meeting.
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Mikhail Mishustin’s meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Roman Golovchenko
Mikhail Mishustin’s meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Roman Golovchenko
Mikhail Mishustin’s meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Roman Golovchenko
Mikhail Mishustin’s meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Roman Golovchenko
Roman Golovchenko: Esteemed Mr Mishustin and members of the
Russian and Belarusian delegations,
I
am sincerely happy about our current meeting that is taking place on the eve of
both our joint work in the CIS format and the meeting of the presidents of
Belarus and Russia. These highly focused meetings are indisputable evidence of
our interest in developing bilateral cooperation and strengthening integration
in the Union State.
I
must admit that the events of the past few days testify to the increased and
absolutely unfair pressure from the Western countries on Belarus. This pressure
has a tendency towards unprecedented escalation. Contrary to international rules
and standards and despite Belarus’s immediate openness to unbiased and complete
investigation of this international incident, the landing of a Ryanair flight in
Minsk, by competent international organisations, the EU countries have imposed restrictions
on Belavia flights to Europe and advised European carriers to abstain from flights
over the territory of Belarus.
An
outrageous incident took place on a Minsk-Barcelona flight yesterday. As our airplane
was gaining altitude, we received information on the closing of the airspace over
France in violation of all aviation regulations and rules. As a result, our
plane had to return to Minsk.
We
are particularly indignant at the hypocrisy when a detained citizen of Belarus is
hailed as a hero by EU officials whereas he has two noteworthy pages in his biography
– participation in hostilities as a member of the notorious Azov battalion in
the east of Ukraine and the administrator of an extremist Telegram channel for
handsome pay. That said, not a single mention was made of a truly heroic action
taken just several days before by two Belarusian pilots who sacrificed their
lives to divert a Yak-130 plane from residential buildings in the centre of the
city.
Obviously,
these openly unfriendly measures will have economic consequences for our
country. Under the circumstances, we certainly hope for support from our
closest ally – the Russian Federation.
More to pasted soon…
