US EditionBelarus' Lukashenko says Venezuelan President Maduro is welcome to move to Belarus
Lukashenko offered Maduro asylum in Belarus if he leaves office, highlighting longstanding ties amid U.S.-Venezuela tensions and no prior talks on the matter, Lukashenko said.
- In a Newsmax interview, Lukashenko said `Maduro was never an enemy or an adversary for us. If he wanted to come to Belarus, the doors for him are open` and that `no such discussions had been held with Maduro`.
- The Venezuelan government says United States seeks regime change to seize oil reserves amid a U.S. military buildup and strikes on drug boats, while Nicolás Maduro is not the sort who leaves or flees.
- Lukashenko warned that sanctions threaten Belarus's drug-fighting cooperation with Europe, asking, `They are strangling me and I am supposed to protect them from drugs?` and urging, `The same applies to you- you shouldn't strangle Venezuela.`
- Lukashenko warned that military action would backfire, saying it would be 'a second Vietnam' and predicted Venezuelans would unite behind Nicolás Maduro, whom he called 'a decent, reasonable man.'
- Lukashenko, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, also said he planned to raise the issue with Donald Trump, adding he is "absolutely convinced that all issues... can be resolved today in a peaceful manner.
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Lukashenko Says Belarus Would Welcome Venezuela’s Maduro If He Steps Down
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro would be welcome in Belarus if he were ever to step down from office, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in a recent interview. Speaking on Newsmax’s “The Record” in an interview on Dec. 13, Lukashenko was asked whether he would offer refuge to Maduro should he leave Venezuela’s presidency. Lukashenko replied that Maduro would be welcome in Minsk if he wished, though the two have never discussed such …
The doors of Belarus are open to the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, if he wishes to leave his country, said today the president of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, after consulting this weekend with the emissary of the White House, John Cole. “Maduro was never our enemy or opponent. If he wanted to come to Belarus, our doors are always open to him,” he said in an interview with the American channel Newsmax TV broadcast by the Belarusian st…
There were probably no direct talks, but the Belarusian leader Lukashenko offers his help to Venezuela's head of state Maduro. Maduro can come to Belarus.
Belarus' Lukashenko says Venezuelan President Maduro is welcome to move to Belarus
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with U.S. media organization Newsmax on Monday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was welcome to come to Belarus should he leave office, but that no such discussions had been held with Maduro.
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