MFA comments on Makei’s ‘secret’ letter to EU diplomats

Press secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anatoly Glaz revealed some details regarding a non-public letter of Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei to EU diplomats in an interview to Belarus 1 TV Channel, BelTA has learned.

The spokesman said that such a letter on behalf of the minister was sent to the EU countries, adding that this was a normal, routine diplomatic practice. Anatoly Glaz added that keeping this fact in mind he considered it strange that the letter evoked such a response.

“As for the letter, yes, there was such a document,” said the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The reason for writing it was the 30th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Belarus and the EU, marked in 2022. “Being a respectable partner, we could not ignore this date. The minister decided to prepare such a letter for some of his counterparts,” he explained.

“The pointof writing a letter was very simple: we see what a chaos has been created in our region  and we wanted to formulate once again our position, which has not changed and consists in the fact that all issues must be resolved at the negotiating table. No amount of pressure will solve any problem, while the presence of the European Union in Belarus will continue contracting, which, in fact, is happening today,” said Anatoly Glaz.