LUKASHENKO: ARMENIANS CAN ALWAYS FIND SUPPORT IN BELARUS

Pan Armenian News
03.05.2005 07:14

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia is the republic with which one “can build
good relations,” Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko stated
in Minsk Tuesday in the course of the meeting with Armenian Prime
Minister Andranik Margarian, who had arrived in Belarus on a formal
call. In Lukashenko’s words, the Belarus people attitude to the
Armenian people is warm. “Maybe Armenians as no other people of the
former Soviet Union remained faithful to the friendship we had had,”
the Belarus leader considers. He noted that in the years of the Great
Patriotic War many Armenians fought in the territory of Belarus,
including military leaders, thousands were killed. “You can always
find support in Belarus, come here at any time and consider this land
yours,” Mr. Lukashenko said. In his turn, A. Margarian positively
evaluated the dynamics of the commercial and economic cooperation
between the two countries and said he was sure that the bilateral
relations will keep strengthening, reported Rosbalt.