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Mikalai Statkevich Met With Vice-Chancellor Of Germany Sigmar Gabriel

Mikalai Statkevich Met With Vice-Chancellor Of Germany Sigmar Gabriel
MIKALAI STATKEVICH

The talk was not exactly a diplomatical one.

Today, Belarusian National Congress leader Mikalai Statkevich has met with Vice-Chancellor, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Sigmar Gabriel, who arrived on a visit in Minsk. Mikalai Statkevich has reported the details of his meeting with one of the German government leaders to Charter97.org:

– I was very pleased to meet Sigmar Gabriel, whom I have known for many years. I am very pleased that a Social Democrat occupies such a high position in the German government.

I told Sigmar Gabriel about the situation in Belarus: the persecution of Narodnaya Hramada activists, repressions against Belarusian National Congress members and the REP independent trade union, about the pressure on one of the BNC leaders Uladzimir Niakliayeu.

I informed the German Foreign Minister of using tortures in the KGB prison and other prisons of Belarus. I also expressed my opinion about contacts with dictator Lukashenka at the highest level. My position is known: I believe that such meetings harm the European Union reputation. It is not rational to reward Lukashenka with such contacts, as they are ill-received by the Belarusians themselves. 80% of Belarusians are negative about such meetings, they harm the image of the European Union and Germany.

Sigmar Gabriel told me about his meetings with the Belarusian authorities and the German side’s motives.

Our conversation was not exactly a diplomatical one, but it was honest. An honest conversation between the two Social-Democrats.

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