Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.

Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.

Sanctions are a bad idea.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

You can't give Russia the right to interfere with the internal affairs of counties in its area.... You have to drive up the cost to Russia for aggression.

Unilateral sanctions only make foreign rivals stronger and taint us as unreliable suppliers.

…sanctions applied to a large nation meant war. They bred “incurable hatreds”.

This deep-rooted view [of the American government] is based on the view that the West not only seeks to continue geopolitical expansion in its classical form but also wants to make everyone do things it's way, by persiusion and example when possible, and by force when necessary.

Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.

I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.

When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.

The Americans made the decision out of principle to buy Russian equipment for us because our pilots and mechanics were trained on Russian aircraft. But, then, as a result of the Ukraine crisis, the US Congress imposed sanctions on Russia and the equipment could no longer be delivered to us. I am proud of our security and defense forces.

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.