The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, visited Baku, met with his Azerbaijani counterpart, and made a series of extravagant, extremely undiplomatic and, in some places, openly hostile statements for Armenia.
At the press conference following the meeting, Alexander Lukashenko called the 44-day aggressive war of Azerbaijan and Turkey against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh a "liberation war", promised to participate in the "restoration" of the occupied Armenian territories and hinted. his fatherly advice before the war.
"We communicate like brothers, we understand the world in the same way, we understand where it is moving. You know, I told you about Heydar Aliyev during a personal meeting. if he saw how Azerbaijan is developing.
I thought again, I remembered our conversation before the war, before your war of liberation, when we were having a philosophical conversation at lunch. Then we came to the conclusion that the war can be won. It is important. It is very important to preserve this victory. But, thirdly, we agreed, you raised this issue then, that after the war, the most difficult time will begin, when it will be necessary to revive the lands you liberated, to start the revival.
And that difficult time has come, when these lands need to be revived, people need to be brought back, and some of them were already born in the city, maybe there will be a problem. We won, we kept the victory. Now we have to revive it. This is the time, this is a lot of work, it is difficult to do everything in five, or maybe ten years", APA quotes the words of the President of Belarus.