Zyanon Paznyak: “One mustn’t spit on people, because regime destroys this people”

Zyanon Paznyak, leader of the Conservative Christian Party of the Belarusian Popular Front, doesn’t know if he goes for a meeting with Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg, but is sure Lukashenka shouldn’t have been invited for the EU summit.

Ahead of the Eastern Partnership summit in Prague scheduled for May 7, Czech minister of foreign affairs Karel Schwarzenberg plans to have a meeting with representatives of the Belarusian democratic opposition – Alyaksandr Milinkevich, Alyaksandr Kazulin, Stanislau Shushkevich, leader of the CCP BPF Zyanon Paznyak, and head of the BNR Council Ivonka Survila. The meeting is scheduled for May 7.

Zyanon Paznyak told euramost.org about his plans and attitude towards this meeting.

– Have your already prepared your speech for a meeting in Prague? What would you like to say the Czech foreign minister and the leaders of the Belarusian opposition which will be present there?

– I haven’t decided yet if I should go there. So, I can’t tell anything about to this question.

– In this case, do you think Belarus should be included in the Eastern Partnership program?

– Sure, it should be included!

– How did you perceive the news Lukashenka was invited for the summit?

– I have repeatedly said it, and now my words are confirmed – the European Union has pragmatic interests. For the sake of these interests they are able to forget about their values and principles of democracy. The facts prove that only the regime gain moral and political advantage of this. It’s look so disgusting. One mustn’t spit on the people in this situation. The regime is destroying this people, neglecting its language, culture, closing schools. People are being beaten with clubs, KGB offices are bursting into people’s houses, people are being arrested for nothing, for the Belarusian language... The dark forces are mocking at the people. Leaving this fact without attention, inviting this barbarian as if we didn’t have other people, demonstrates primitive character of the policy. They probably don’t care what attitude the Belarusians will have towards them. Maybe the same attitude they have towards Lukashenka. From the point of view of the normal politics, it is a mistake of the European Union. It is a very simple and primitive decision. This decision is possible, but Europe should have done it in a more delicate and respectable way.