Lukashenka Misleads Kiev About Ukrainian TV Channel

The Belarusian channel Belarus-24 is accessible in Ukraine, but a Ukrainian channel has not appeared in Belarus.

On July 20-21, Aliaksandr Lukashenka will visit Kiev.

One of the previous meetings – in December 2014 – resulted in the agreement to include a Ukrainian TV channel in the Belarusian broadcasting network, and vice versa, a Belarusian channel – in the Ukrainian one, nn.by writes.

The Minister of Information of Ukraine reported about the achievements on a technical issue agreement with Liliya Ananich.

The situation is still the same after two and a half years. The Belarusian channel Belarus-24 is accessible in Ukraine, but the Ukrainian channel has not appeared in Belarus.

Dozens of Russian channels can be found in the basic cable packages, but Polish or Ukrainian channels are not available.

Can we expect that the Ukrainian channel will still appear?

The Ministry of Information official, responsible for cooperation with Ukraine, did not answer anything to Nasha Niva’s oral inquiry, adding that he could do it "only with the permission of the Minister." And he offered the journalists to apply for such a minister’s permission themselves.