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“It would be more harmful to him, Belarus, than the European Union, I think it would be nonsense,” he told the AFP in Berlin, adding that he did not believe in resolving the crisis through diplomacy. Channels.
“I will not take her (her threat) too seriously, because there is a Russian interest in the matter,” he said after a speech by German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass.
The latter estimated that it was “too long” to draw the consequences against Belarus, which has been accused of triggering a migrant crisis on the Polish border, and that the European Union “is going to extend and strengthen its sanctions against the Lukashenko regime next week.”
In retaliation, the strong man from Minsk said on Thursday that his country would respond to any new European sanctions, especially threatening to disrupt the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany and Poland.
But Ms Dikanovskaya called on the EU to stand firm.
“We are grateful for the position of the European Union, which has not dealt with any criminals in Belarus who have committed many acts of torture,” he said.
The re-election of President Lukashenko a year ago was contested for weeks during severely repressed protests.
“Immigrants are the hostages of this regime,” she said, referring to them as “cannon fodder”, Ms Dikanovskaya continued.
“Sanctions are the only lever for the EU to change Lukashenko’s behavior,” he said.
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