The United States and other Western countries have been persuading the Eurasian Economic Union’s member-states to join pressures on Belarus over the migrant crisis, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at a video conference of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on Friday.
"You should be aware that the United States and the West will not give up their policy. They need pretexts for exerting pressure on our brotherly neighbor Russia and on us as well. The refugees are the latest pretext they’ve found. It is being used for pressure on Belarus first and foremost."
Lukashenko warned that this pressure would keep growing. "We have obtained evidence already that emissaries from the Western countries, including the United States, have already showed up at your government ministries to try to persuade you to join pressures on Belarus," Lukashenko said.
He warned that greater pressures would be put on the EAEU countries as well. "They will be trying to strangle you, to set you against Belarus, to join the sanctions against my country," he said. "So I am asking you not to be distracted by these urges and to stay united, because pressures will be mounting."
