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Lukashenka criticized the ambassadors of Belarus
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In response to the replacement of the red-green flag with the historical one – white-red-white – the Belarusian ambassador had to beat the mayor of Riga and the minister of foreign affairs of Latvia.
Alexander Lukashenko criticized the Ambassador of Belarus in Riga for not reacting “like a man” to the incident with the Belarusian flag in Lithuania and not “stuffing the face” with the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry and the chairman of the Riga City Council. He stated this at a meeting on Tuesday, July 20, informs press service of the president.
As a reminder, the incident took place on May 24 in Riga, at the time near the Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija, where the flags of the countries participating in the World Ice Hockey Championship and the national flag of Belarus are displayed. has been replaced by the historic white-red-white… The flag was replaced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgars Rinkevich and the chairman of the Riga City Council Martins Stakis. The Mayor of Riga noted that this gesture is an initiative of the Riga City Council, entrusted to it by the Belarusian opposition, and the purpose of this gesture is to express support to everyone who is being repressed by the Lukashenka regime.
“If in Riga someone, some kind of scoundrel, touched the Belarusian flag and began to tear it up there, take it off, well, the ambassador should go out and publicly with a threat, maybe for his own life, to stuff that scoundrel in the face, like a man Speaking. And we have silence. And there is silence in the Foreign Ministry, so that you know (I say for journalists) until the president stamped his foot, “Lukashenko stressed.
He also criticized some other heads of the foreign missions of Belarus, who, according to the president, “let the situation in their collectives take their course” and openly sided with the opponents of the current government.
“Such examples are well known to you. Former ambassadors in Argentina (Astapenko), Spain (Pustovoy), Slovakia (Leshchenya), Latvia (Markovich), former heads of foreign missions in Switzerland (Matsukevich), Dubai (Bondarev). I’m not talking about Latushko , who out of 21 years of his diplomatic experience spent 17 years abroad, “Lukashenka said.
In this regard, he instructed the Prime Minister, the Head of the Presidential Administration and the Minister of Foreign Affairs to substantively analyze the issues of the personnel of the Belarusian diplomatic service.
It was also reported today that Lukashenka ordered to cut embassies in the EU countries. In his opinion, one ambassador with an assistant in a two-room apartment will be enough.
As reported, the mayor of Riga refused to return the flag of Belarus.
It was later reported that in Belarus a case was filed due to the flag incident.
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