MINSK. Feb 16 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he is ready to hold a joint meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden.
"Let us meet here, the three of us, two 'aggressors' and the 'peace-loving' president. Why not? For the sake of stopping the war. If he wants to stop the war (Poland is not far away, and I can send a plane, a Boeing, if necessary), we will receive him. We have plenty of international airports. His Air Force One can land here," the Belarusian state-run news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko as telling foreign journalists in Minsk on Thursday.
"Clinton came by a similar plane once. Here, in your presence, the three of us (I guarantee you that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will come here) will sit down and solve the whole problem. We will solve all problems here," Lukashenko said.
He said, however, he was sure that Biden would not come to Minsk. "No, he won't come here. Yet he should have for the sake of stopping the war, so that people do not die," he said.
"He will stay in Poland, because Poland is the hyena of Europe and is playing the most active role in the escalation of war in Ukraine. It is shouting more than anyone else, more than the Americans. So, I am inviting you and your president to Minsk. We will provide full security and comfort. Most importantly, he will leave satisfied. Let us see how he arrives," Lukashenko said.