Lukashenka offers Iran to unite: “Crisis can turn into political one”

Lukashenka is set to join efforts with Iran in order “to minimize the fallout of the global financial crisis”.

“Neither Belarus nor Iran have relation to emergence of the crisis, that is for sure,” said Lukashenka. He added, today Belarus and Iran should cooperate more effectively and on a larger scale in order to minimize the fallout of the crisis. Alyaksandr Lukashenka stated that at the meeting with Foreign Minister of Iran Manouchehr Mottaki in Minsk, Interfax informs.

Lukashenka stated that “there is an economic crisis raging in the world.” “It used to be a financial crisis which then turned into economic and in some areas into political,” he said.

The Belarusian leader noted that according to his knowledge the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry had arrived to Belarus “with concrete offers, solutions of some problems in the projects planned for realization”.

The President said, this meeting with Mr Manouchehr Mottaki will centre on the joint actions needed to execute the contracts signed between Belarus and Iran earlier. “Time has proved we made the right choice. And today it is critical to implement these agreements in a more speedy manner,” the Belarusian president said.

In his turn the head of Iranian Foreign Ministry said that the foreign ministries of the two countries are in charge of following the execution of the agreements between the two presidents in development of bilateral relations. “You and Mr Ahmadinejad are architects of the new stage of cooperation between Iran and Belarus,” Manouchehr Mottaki said. “I assure you that there are no barriers or problems which cannot be solved,” he said.

M. Mottaki conveyed “a warm welcome from your close friend president Ahmadinejad and his invitation to visit Iran’.