President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met today with representatives of opposition political movements currently held in the KGB pre-trial detention centre, BELTA correspondent reports.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met today with representatives of opposition political movements currently held in the KGB pre-trial detention centre, BELTA correspondent reports.
"The country is living under the slogan: 'Let's have dialogue'. Based on the reproaches of your supporters, I thought about the most radical proposal – on all issues. There's no need to focus solely on the Constitution. Half of you, as far as I understand, are lawyers and perfectly understand that you can't write a constitution on the street. I look at this more broadly, I try to convince not only your supporters but the entire society that the problem needs to be viewed more broadly," Alexander Lukashenko said during the meeting.
For all those present, it came as a complete surprise. It is in this vein that the meeting is being discussed on the internet. "Absolutely unexpected. Well, it's not the practice of heads of state to have such public, open meetings with adversaries," this is a quote from Telegram channels. But Alexander Lukashenko listened to them too.
This exchange of views lasted four and a half hours. The conversation naturally touched upon many crucial topics, primarily politics and the economy. The participants, by mutual decision, left the details of the meeting confidential. -0-