(Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English)
MINSK. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The European Union should lift any restrictions against Belarus, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said.
"We are expecting you to lift any sanctions that you have imposed thus upsetting Belarusian people," Lukashenko said at a meeting with Anne-Marie Lizin, head of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission of short-term observers who monitored the Belarusian parliamentary elections.
"Europe has no right to impose sanctions for two reasons," he said.
"First of all, in the last war we defended the whole Europe. Secondly, the Chernobyl tragedy. It was not us who built the plant, who was using it, or who blew it up, but 85% of the disaster fell on Belarus. So you are committing a European Chernobyl by imposing sanctions against us," Lukashenko told Lizin.
"What have Belarusians done to Europe?" the president said.
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