Lukashenko’s press service reported that Alexander Lukashenko spoke by phone with French President Emmanuel Macron.
The conversation allegedly took place at the initiative of the French side. Macron and Lukashenko discussed “regional problems and relations between Belarus, the European Union and France in particular.”
Sources from the French television channel TF1/LCI certainThat there was a conversation. According to them, Macron, in particular, “stressed the risks facing Belarus associated with Russia’s possible involvement in an aggressive war against Ukraine.” “Alexander Lukashenko also called for taking the necessary steps to improve relations between Belarus and Europe,” the source said.
The last time Macron spoke to Lukashenko was on February 26, 2022, a few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Then the President of France booksAnd that he “asked Alexander Lukashenko to ensure the withdrawal of Russian forces from the territory of his country” – and that Belarus should not become “an effective partner of Russia in the war against Ukraine.”
Today’s call came after Russia launched the Oreshnik attack on Ukrainian territory. Macron maleFrance “condemns this attack and the use of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, which indicates above all an attempt at further escalation and a dead end in the aggressive war.”
After Donald Trump reached his second presidential term, relations with the United States began to improve in Belarus, but they remain tense with Europe, and European sanctions continue to be applied, despite Washington lifting restrictions on Minsk. Sources: Bloomberg to speakThe United States is putting pressure on Ukraine and asking Kiev to persuade European countries to ease restrictions on importing potash fertilizers from Belarus.