Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel called him on Sunday “to talk.”
“Merkel called me: ‘I want to talk.’ These [people like] [Lithuanian President Gitanas] Nauseda, and others […] ‘We want to talk.’ […] Don’t try to incline me, no matter from the West or from the East,” Lukashenko said during a dialogue with workers at the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant on Monday.
The Belarus 1 television channel broadcast an excerpt from the video record of the meeting on Monday evening..
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The Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions announced that it is urgent to create a National Strike Committee (NSC).
“In the coming days, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we must meet with your delegated representatives and form the NSC,” reads a statement signed by the head of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions Alexander Yaroshuk.
It is necessary to create a strike committee, Yaroshuk emphasized, as soon as possible – “delaying death is like, we are talking about the fate of our Motherland, the fate of Belarus.”
Baranovichi, Bobruisk, Starye Dorogi and other cities are going to hold rallies in support of Lukashenka today and tomorrow, Nasha Niva reports.