Perfect example of mirror-image diplomacy:
Lukashenka said ..., "One has to speak to the devil if necessary to prevent things from getting worse."
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On 3/29/14, [email protected] wrote:
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> What is up with that -- would it not be wiser to have Turchynov visit Poland or some other NATO country first?
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> In some ways this is another slap at Putin because traditionally all Presidents & Prime Ministers of Ukraine all visit Russia as their first foreign visits and always in the first 1-2 weeks (never any time to settle down either)
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> http://www.rferl.org/contentlive/live-blog-ukraine-crisis/25312563.html
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> More from our news desk on Ukrainian acting President Oleksandr Turchynov meeting in Belarus with President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
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> The Belarusian president's office said the two met at Lukashenka's residence in the village of Lyaskovichi, near the Ukrainian border.
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> The statement did not provide any further details.
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> Lukashenka said Friday in an interview on Ukrainian TV that he planned to meeting with Turchynov in the near future.
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> Lukashenka said in the interview "we are neighbors" and "the most important thing is the people of Ukraine and the people of Belarus."
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> He added, "One has to speak to the devil if necessary to prevent things from getting worse."
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> Belarus was one of 11 countries, along with Russia, that on Thursday voted against a non-binding UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula earlier this month.
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