USA exerts "stupid pressure" on Belarus

[lovuian]

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/370/14407_Belarus.html


USA exerts "stupid pressure" on Belarus
10/08/2004 16:38
Belarus President Lukashenko wants Bush to expose his income too

The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry expressed its reaction on Thursday in connection with the decision of the House of Representatives of the US Congress to impose economic sanctions against Belarus. An official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Alexander Yakovenko, stated that American officials had chosen a wrong way to go. "Moscow would like all countries to develop relations with Belarus," the official stated.
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Alexander Lukashenko's strategy is as follows: offence is the best defense. Lukashenko particularly stated: "The US administration is concerned about the democracy in Belarus, about our elections and referendums. However, they forget about their own problems. They even demand we should expose the data regarding the president's income," said he. Lukashenko was very perturbed with that requirement from American officials. "Our parliament will gather and demand Bush should expose his income too. And then we will see, if he does so," Lukashenko stated. According to the Belarussian president, his income is a lot lower than Bush's and all presidents' income on the whole. That is why, Alexander Lukashenko thinks that he has nothing to hide - he has already ordered to calculate everything that the state paid him and send the information to the States.


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I think Belarus also has large Oil deposits

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[FuzzyHamster]

1. I don't think sanctions will help in this case

esp since it's so close to Russia. IIRC, Lukashenko's been banned from the EU for his autocratic ways.

[Mr E McSquare]

3. Dick Cheny says...

Sanctions don't work anyway. All those other countries will still be able to conduct business with Belarus but Halliburton wont. So Sad.
According to Big Dick the same goes for Iran.
I lay awake till the wee hours of the morning worrying about how un-fair it is that Halliburton is forbidden by U.S. sanctions from doing business with Iran and how un-fair it is that those damn Frenchies, Germans and Russians can still build nuckuler reactors for them.
Maybe when Huge Dick gets re-elected he'll be able to lift those sanctions. I mean just because Iran is part of the axil of evil doesnt mean we cant do business with.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It doesn't have that much oil

2001 production: 37,000 barrels per day; 2001 consumption: 230,000 bbl/day.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bo.html

It may, however, be quite important for pipelines taking oil and gas from Russia to central and Western Europe.
http://www.inogate.org/html/countries/belarus.htm

[lovuian]

5. Bingo Its the Pipelines

It has access to the Sea!!!

[David__77]

4. US should not interfere in Belarus affairs.

It is "stupid" to subvert sovereign, non-aggressive states like Belarus. It is not the business of the US.