Emigre politician about Lukashenka's attending UN session: 'We'll meet him in New York'


The date of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s address in the United Nations has become known. The Belarusian leader will be given the honorable right to speak on the first day of the 70th session of UN General Assembly on September, 28 in New York. The general debate is to start straight after the 2015 UN Summit that is scheduled for September, 25-27.

“Let him come, we will meet him,” emigre politician Zyanon Pazniak told Radio Racyja when asked about Lukashenka’s scheduled speech in New York.

In 1996, Mr Pazniak, Chairman of the Conservative Christian Party of the Belarusian People’s Front, led the first mass protests against the methods of Lukashenka’s rule, which later became known as Spring 1996. After a wave of political repression, Zyanon Pazniak emigrated to the West.

“But I must say that this is the usual protocol: any member state of the UN, regardless of political issues, sanctions and so on, has the right to participate in the sessions. No one can change it. And in 2005, Lukashenka arrived and made a speech despite the fact that he was illegitimate and no one recognized him. It is the right of the state and it is used. Once Khrushchev used it when he was banging the the podium with his shoe; Fidel Castro and other dictators also used this right. It is such a mechanism, it is such an organization. This is such procedure, such organization,” Pazniak said.

The UN session will be held in the organization’s headquarters in New York. It is reported that about 160 world leaders will attend the event.

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