Alexander Lukashenko: Belarus should counteract Pole Card plan

Belarus should work out specific measures to counteract the Polish intention to use Pole Cards, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told media on February 15. “The so-called Pole Card initiative of the Polish leadership is an absolutely abnormal step, an attempt to destabilise the situation in the neighbouring state, to split the Polish population in our country,” remarked the President. He reminded, in its time similar actions taken by Hungary triggered an extremely negative response from European countries. “Where is the reaction now?” wondered the head of state. According to Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry and mass media “are too much enthusiastic crying about the bad step taken by Poland”. “We should not cry, we should work out corresponding counteraction measures. We need to survive against competition,” he stressed. “We are working out these measures. There is nothing new in dual standards used against us,” said the President.