Go to mediabankBelarusian-Ukrainian border. File photoMINSK, Oct. 12 Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said that the sending of Western countries of their representatives to the Ukrainian-Belarusian border at the request of Kyiv would mean, in fact, the involvement of these countries in the Ukrainian conflict. «I agree here with the assessment that was made by the Russian side. If relevant representatives of Western countries are sent to the border of Belarus and Ukraine, this will actually mean the involvement of these third countries in the Ukrainian conflict,» Makei said on the sidelines of the CIS Foreign Ministers meeting in Astana. His words are quoted by the Belta agency.
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry: the country will not turn a blind eye to the accumulation of military troops at the borders»We have always said that we do not want to participate in this conflict and we want everything that is happening in Ukraine to stop as soon as possible. But, unfortunately, we see that it is at the suggestion of Western countries that this conflict is only aggravated,» the minister emphasized. contingent pose a threat to the national security of Belarus, the minister said that it depends on «with what intentions these observers will come or what weapons they will be armed with.» The Belarusian Foreign Minister stressed that the Belarusian authorities would not disregard what was happening near their border. On October 11, Zelensky called on the G7 countries to deploy international observers on the border of Ukraine and Belarus to monitor the security situation.
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