Lukashenka talks about new approaches of West towards Belarus

The West is coming to understand that it has already exhausted its reserves to pressurize Belarus, Aliaksandr Lukashenka stated at a session of the Security Council.

“Fortunately, political experts in the West are realizing, although belatedly, that they have exhausted their reserves to pressurize Belarus. We can hear calls to work out new approaches and positions,” the head of state said.

Speaking about the forthcoming ice hockey world championship, Aliaksandr Lukashenka noted that this kind of competitions has always had a political subtext. “Sport became part of politics a long time ago. And often, or I would say in most of the cases, this politics is unscrupulous and dirty,-  BelTA agency quotes his saying. - We should not forget that there are a lot of speculations over this championship, starting from the calls of our opposition, the so-called fifth column, to boycott the competition, up to the attempts of foreign ill-wishers to blackmail us”.

According to Lukashenka’s words, the support of international sports organizations is particularly important for Belarus in this environment: “It takes courage. It is not that easy to withstand such a pressure when you live in the West”.

Let us recall that a number of Belarusan politicians and human rights fighters launched a “Fair Play” campaign timed to the Ice Hockey World Championship 2014. The campaign is aimed at drawing the attention of the world community to the problem of political prisoners in Belarus. However, the campaign didn’t get wide response yet.