Lukashenko on Trump's proposed major deal with Belarus

Are you satisfied with the negotiations that took place with the American delegation?

Is everything moving toward a big deal, and what should be its main outcome?

When you talk about a big deal, I get more and more surprised.

I think, how do you know, or did I let something slip somewhere about this big deal?

Yes, indeed, during the negotiations, in the third and fourth rounds,

they, on behalf of Trump, proposed making a big deal,

where a number of issues would be reflected that are on the agenda of our talks.

Well, what, am I going to deny it?

It is not that I am so happy about it, but it is important for Belarus, and for me as well.

So I said I take it normally, tell Donald that I agree

to work out this big deal, to prepare it.

Well, obviously, they are big and maybe they had no time for this, especially now, but that was earlier.

We set out our interests and sent the Americans a corresponding proposal.

As they informed me, they are being worked through.

Naturally, not only in the State Department, but also in the Presidential Administration.

The system is the same as mine.

The Foreign Ministry, the Presidential Administration, and then the President.

That was the arrangement we had with them on this big deal.

And a big deal is not only about political prisoners, as they say,

although I keep correcting them that we do not have political prisoners,

because we do not have any articles on political prisoners.

Well, and those who are traitors, spies.

And there were quite a few of those whom we, so to speak, gave them from a position of generosity.

And Japanese, and Lithuanians, and Poles were released, the ones they asked for.

Well, naturally, I never asked them for anything in return, not even under sanctions.

Never. To give the Americans their due, they always said:

We are taking these steps, and it is not only about political prisoners.

It is also about the work of embassies, about nuclear materials, and so on.

You know that we have quite a lot of those nuclear materials.

Well, under control, as agreed back then, the IAEA sees where we store these nuclear materials.

That is also of interest to them in terms of nonproliferation, customs, drug movement, trafficking.

And our good neighbors Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland, and maybe to some extent those Brussels comrades,

they also feed them questions.

They know they are flying to me, they have landed in Vilnius.

Those ones are already running around them.

And you tell Lukashenko not only about the political prisoner, tell him about those balloons that they use to throw cigarettes over.

I responded to this, my position remains the same.

If you remind me of the latest events, I will tell you about it in that regard.

Then those carriers, the cars that we detained here, they load them up.

I, of course, know Cole’s reaction, he is very smart, very.

He, of course, understands that they will load him up, but he knows my position on this.

So this is how we gradually built up these issues.

And in the third round they said, here we are ready, Donald is offering a big deal

and to meet, up to and including at his home in Florida, and to discuss it and reach an agreement.

I always speak.