Aliaksandr Lukashenka: The standards OSCE tries to force upon Belarus do not exist

There is no need in the organization that doesn’t perform its functions and tries to force on Belarus as well as other countries standards that simply do not exist, Lukashenka assumes.

 “These standards don’t exist. Together with Russia and other countries, including Kazakhstan and Ukraine, we have insisted on working out these standards and unifying them,” reports BelTA the words President said during the opening of new metro stations in Minsk on November, 6. “But these standards don’t exist. These standards are interpreted any way anyone wants,” said Lukashenka.

He is convinced that CIS observers primarily base their opinion on principles “closest to all of us”. “This way we evaluate elections here, within the CIS framework and these evaluations are contrary to the OSCE evaluations because the OSCE tries to force its own standards upon us. Not even its own standards but nonexistent standards, which are completely politically biased,” stated the head of state.

To support his statement about OSCE double standards Lukashenka referred to the USA that positions itself as a stronghold of democracy: “So international observers arrive and get told that if they cross the threshold, they will be arrested. What if we acted like that? We invite them and Americans act as observers in Belarus. We don’t arrest them,” said the President. “But even today they want to be able to count votes. It is a manifestation of double and triple standards. We cannot allow it”.

“I haven’t noticed any concern here about elections in the USA. I don’t show any concern nor does our government. The Minsk mayor, the Central Election Commission, the oblast governors don’t and even reporters don’t,” said the President. “They can hold elections any way they want. The entire world laughs at these elections. First, these are indirect elections; second, a man with fewer votes can become the president. What kind of elections are those? But they like it this way, it is the tradition, the people are silent while the leaders are pleased. Well, may god be with you”.

“We should build our own life and repel those who infringe it,” Alexander Lukashenko is convinced.