Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. File photoMINSK, July 2Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that the next showdown in the fight for the redivision of the world will be in Central Asia, the symptoms of this have already appeared. «The Americans want to dominate … they want a unipolar world, and whoever raises his head, they begin to bomb… The reason is the emergence of new relations in the world, multipolarity… Today there is a struggle not only for our post-Soviet space, its European part, today a struggle has unfolded for Central Asia, where our (former Soviet — ed.) of the republic,» Lukashenka said on Saturday at a solemn meeting on the occasion of the Independence Day of the republic. He stressed that after mass protests in Kazakhstan earlier this year, he warned of the danger of destabilizing the situation in Uzbekistan. «Look — the Karakalpakstan (autonomous — ed.) Republic … allegedly something was not reflected in the constitution, and now it has risen. No, Uzbekistan has begun to pump. And today they are already declaring that foreigners had a hand in it. and from Kazakhstan. The situation is complicated there,» Lukashenka said. According to him, «Central Asia, like us, found itself between two fires: on the one hand, Europeans and Americans, on the other, China, which greatly helps Central Asia to survive. This the fight will be in Central Asia in the near future, the symptoms of this have already appeared,» the Belarusian president stated. He stressed that «the world will be divided».
