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“Armenia and Azerbaijan should sit at the negotiations table and solve the Karabakh problem without any strong or weak mediators. If they want to use someone as a guarantor, they must make this decision together. It is the right time to solve this issue today,” President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.

As the Belarusian President’s Office reported, Lukashenko’s comments came during the meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia Armen Khachatryan on the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic mission in Belarus.

Expanding on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Lukashenko noted the conflict does not concern Belarus: “I will openly say that it is not our issue, not my issue. We have nothing to do there,” the president explained, as quoted by the source.

At the same time, Lukashenko indicated that he had only one position [regarding the conflict] that people should have a decent life. “I don’t believe that people have a decent life in Nagorno-Karabakh today. Is this a decent life when you feel that you can be wounded or killed every day?” the President asked rhetorically.

According to Alexander Lukashenko, people are the priority. “It is inadmissible to play this card in politics when people are dying and suffering. This is our intransient attitude to all conflict zones in the world, including Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and so on. People should live well,” he added.