The US Embassy in Russia said that Bush would not meet Lukashenko

The statements regarding the possible meeting in Moscow of US President George Bush with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko are not true. RIA Novosti was reported on Friday by phone in the press service of the US Embassy in Moscow.

"We do not know anything about such plans. There is no reason to believe that the statements of the negotiations of President Bush and President Lukashenko in Moscow are true," the embassy said.

Meanwhile, the Belarusian parliamentarians mainly support the idea of ​​meeting the presidents of Belarus and the USA Alexander Lukashenko and George Bush, although they doubt her implementation in the near future after the statements of US Secretary of State Condolism , Interfax reports.

“The meeting of Lukashenko -Bush is needed. We need to meet, we need to talk in order to resolve certain contradictions between the positions of the parties,” said Anatoly Malofeev, head of the Commission on Regional Policy and the local government of the upper house of the Belarusian parliament.

Minsk considers the meeting of the presidents Alexander Lukashenko and George Bush premature, taking into account the critical statements of US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice regarding Belarus. This statement was made in an interview with Interfax on Friday the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Maria Vanshina.

"Belarus does not accept dictatorship, pressure and threats. At the same time, Belarus consistently stands for good relations with the United States, on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and respect," Vanshina said. At the same time, she noted, "on the official state line, the issue of meeting the presidents of Belarus and the United States was not worked out."

"As for the statements of Belarusian parliamentarians (about a possible meeting) - I recommend contacting them for clarifications," said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"We expect that in the future, relations between our countries will develop positively, on the basis of mutual respect.

Belarus would welcome such development, ”said the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.