Participants of the “Lublin Triangle” (Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania) are ready to talk with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, whom the EU and the United States do not recognize as legally elected, but on the basis of mutual respect and only if the Belarusian side really wants it.
“We are ready to talk with Alexander Lukashenko. From the very beginning of the crisis in Belarus, the Lublin Triangle offered its good services to help resolve the situation and enter the democratic vector of development. Nobody is shutting down from anyone, but, of course, if to talk, then the conversation should be with mutual respect and only if the Belarusian side really wants it. We will not impose ourselves, but we are open to communication,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said at an online briefing after the first meeting of the Lublin Triangle on Jan. 29.
Kuleba noted that all that can now stop violence in Belarus, ensure democratic transformations in this country, is a subject for conversation, for which the participants of the “Lublin Triangle” are ready.
In addition, the minister said Svetlana Tikhanovskaya joined the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, and they listened to her vision of the situation in Belarus and her expectations from the international community.
“Surely, without Belarus, the Lublin Triangle is a little incomplete, and we would like, in the end, democratic Belarus to join and turn the Lublin Triangle into the Lublin Square. But the time has not yet come for that,” Kuleba said.
According to the Ukrainian foreign minister, the situation in Belarus has an impact not only on the bilateral relations of this country with its neighbors, but also on the situation in the region as a whole.
“That is why today’s conversation with Mrs. Tikhanovskaya took place in a regional format,” he said.
