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Lukashenko: Various forces, primarily external ones, eager to undermine the situation in Belarus

MINSK, 29 March (BelTA) -  Various forces, especially the ones from the outside, are set on exacerbating the situation in Belarus, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a meeting held on 29 March to discuss the social and political situation in the country, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said that he had invited the Security Council to the meeting to discuss the issue, first of all, to see how to act to ensure internal and external security and what to do with regard to the changing situation. “I have said more than once that we will not have a quiet life here. The situation in the country may be calmer or more acute, but there will never be absolute peace in the country. This is because various forces, especially from the outside, want to heat up the situation here,” the president said.

“You see that the supervisors abroad have changed. Some of the channels there, which used to lead protesters around Minsk, have given it up. More radical ones, like BYPOL, have emerged, that include a dozen or two former servicemen as they say. It is hard, of course, to call them servicemen. You see all those calls for radicalization,” the head of state said.

Aleksandr Lukashenko asked the defense minister to briefly report on the situation on the external borders of Belarus, and the KGB chairman and the interior minister to brief on the situation inside the country and the prospects for its further development.

Speaking about the prospects and forecasts for the development of the situation, the head of state drew attention to the importance of ensuring economic security of the country. “We do not live in a closed world. We have to ensure our internal, economic security, first of all, by ourselves. We have absolutely no one to rely on,” he stressed.

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