​Belarusian President Oleksandr Lukashenko accuses the US of pushing Europe into a military confrontation with Russia to destroy Ukraine and Belarus, and then to destroy Moldova and Romania. Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected these statements, stressing that they “fuel rhetoric based on calls for force and the threat of force in international relations.”

“The United States is pushing Europe into a military confrontation with Russia on the territory of Ukraine. They do not hide their plans. Contracts for the following years have already been concluded. That is, Ukraine will be wiped off the face of the earth. The goal is to weaken Russia and destroy Belarus,” he said. speaking at a forum organized on the occasion of the Day of National Unity, Interfax reports, News.ro reports.

Lukashenko expressed his belief that the United States is the instigator of all military conflicts in Europe, the only beneficiary of which is the United States.

The head of state of Belarus said that the goal of the USA is to seize Europe in order to “eliminate competitors”, according to msn.

“The Americans are the only country that will benefit from what is happening here: to put Europe in its place and eliminate competitors. Today Ukraine – tomorrow it will be Moldova or the Baltic States, Poland or Romania. The USA is preparing a war in Kosovo, trying to put pressure on Serbia, throwing coal in the smoldering conflict in Karabash, muddying the waters in Syria,” he said.

“Not everything is easy in Afghanistan and neighboring countries,” Lukashenko added.

“Washington is present in all significant political conflicts,” the Minsk leader concluded.

As reported by TASS, he also stated that “the disintegration of Ukraine has already begun,” and “Polish, Lithuanian, and Latvian politicians probably naively expect to negotiate their future in new geopolitical realities.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the temporary chargé d’affaires of Belarus to Romania

Because of Lukashenka’s statements, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bohdan Aurescu ordered to summon the temporary Chargé d’affaires of Belarus in Romania to the headquarters of the IAEA.

“The Romanian side resolutely rejects such unacceptable statements that fuel rhetoric based on calls for force and the threat of force in international relations. The international role and responsibility of Belarus as an accomplice of Russia in supporting the war of aggression against Ukraine cannot be ignored,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

At the same time, the MAE reminds that Romania is a member state of NATO and enjoys, to the highest degree, all the security guarantees that derive from this status, in accordance with the clause on collective defense in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, NATO being the strongest military-political alliance in history