Łukašenka calls for elimination of all nuclear weapons

April 6, BPN. Alaksandr Łukašenka has suggested that all of the world’s nuclear weapons be destroyed. He was commenting on reports that in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 6, French President Emmanuel Macron touched on the possible deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Taking questions after the Union State’s supreme council meeting in Moscow, Łukašenka agreed with Macron that no country should deploy nuclear weapons in another country.

“Therefore, the Americans should withdraw all their nuclear weapons from the five or six countries hosting them. Period. I am a radical in this respect,” Łukašenka said. He added that nuclear weapons should be “put in one pile over a certain period of time and destroyed.” “Anyone can run off at the mouth, like that comrade of ours [apparently Macron]. So, okay, let’s pile it all up and destroy it. That’s the best option. In the meantime, we do what they do,” Łukašenka said, justifying his decision to host Russian tactical nuclear weapons.

According to Reuters, Macron “asked Xi to press Russia to comply with international rules on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.”

In a TV interview, aired on March 25, Vladimir Putin said a special storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons would be completed in Belarus by July 1. “We don’t pass [nuclear weapons to Belarus]. And the USA does not pass them to its allies. Basically, we do everything that it has been doing for decades. It has them in certain allied countries, preparing their carriers and their crews,” the Russian president said.